MTHFR Testing
Are you feeling like your behind the 8 Ball? Finding it hard to recover? Been all around town and no-one can understand your condition?
If the answer is Yes you may be a poor Methylator and you may have a mutation in a particular gene called MTHFR.
The MTHFR Gene
The MTHFR gene, technically referred to as Methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase, is a key enzyme required to metabolise homocysteine. Mutations of the MTHFR gene may cause elevated blood levels of homocysteine which has been implicated in a wide variety of conditions.
What is MTHFR?
Fig 1 – The Methylation Cycle: Taken from http://www.currentpsychiatry.com/fileadmin/cp_archive/images/1201/1201CP_Ramsey-fig1.jpg
Courtesty Healthscope Australia