Gene Mutations: What Can We Control?

And some of this is going to come from an article.

And again, I talked about this in the past on this program.

The article that I'm going to cite again is the MTHFR gene and the importance of methyl B12 and methylfolate.

And I'll get into exactly what all that means.

That's from Wellness Resources.

But they have a lot of great tips on there.

But let's talk a little bit about gene mutations and what all that means.

So we've all heard... you know, throughout the years in the medical community, right, about genes, right? And, you know, the one thing you hear about, well, it's genetic, right? That's what they'll say is genetic.

And, you know, when they can't find what's wrong with you, well, they'll look in your history.

Ah, well, your father's sister had it and your mother's brother had it or whatever.

So that means it runs in the family.

It's genetic.

There's nothing you can do about it.

And that's it.

You know, you hear you hear all these types of things.

Well, is that actually the case? in terms of genes and gene mutations.

So we're going to take a deep dive.

There's a lot of gene mutations that can happen.

And I'll dive into this.

So we're going to take a look at one specific one, but it really highlights all of them.

But one specific one that is the most common one is called the MTHFR gene, right? And MTHFR, a lot of people like to say it's the MFR gene.

That's the kind of the nickname for it.

But basically, I'm going to describe exactly what it does.

So you kind of get an idea, okay? So What the MTHFR gene does is when you take in folic acid, okay, we all know folic acid, right? When you take in folic acid, whether it's through a supplement or through a food or something like that, it converts folic acid into what's called methylfolate.

There's a conversion that happened to John.