241: What is methylation & why it’s critical to your health | Kara Fitzgerald, N.D.

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🗓️ 5 August 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Kara Fitzgerald, N.D.: “If oxidative stress is chronic, your methylation cycle can’t keep up—you’ll always have this drain on your antioxidant system.” Fitzgerald, a naturopathic doctor and functional medicine expert, joins mbg co-CEO, Jason Wachob, to discuss why a healthy methylation balance is critical to health, plus: *Methylation adaptogens & what foods to avoid* *How certain foods can help regulate DNA expression* *Why adding pumpkin seeds can transform your meals into "super recipes"* *How methylation affects the aging process & how you can slow it down* *How to tell if your homocysteine levels are off & what to do* Whether it's an article or podcast, we want to know what we can do to help here at mindbodygreen. Let us know at: [email protected]. Also be sure to check out Fitzgerald's book, Methylation Diet & Lifestyle, which you can find at https://www.drkarafitzgerald.com/product/methylation-diet-lifestyle-ebook/. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the My Buddy Green podcast. I'm Jason Walkab, founder and co-ceeo of My Buddy Green and your host.
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0:47.0	Dr. Kara Fitzgerald is a naturopath and one of the leading functional medicine voices when it comes to all things methylation.
0:56.0	What is methylation you may ask?
0:58.0	Well, it's complicated. It's very critical to our well-being, yet it's often ignored and undervalued and
1:04.5	we're gonna cover it in this very podcast but look it's a subject that's near and
1:09.2	dear to my heart as both Colleen and I have had potentially life-threatening issues which stem
1:16.0	from methylation. Colleen had a pulmonary embolism and I had sky-high homocysteine that could
1:21.6	have led to a catastrophic clotting event. So suffice to say,
1:26.0	very critical and we're going to get ready for a deep dive on methylation, something I urge all of us to pay attention to.
1:34.7	Kara, welcome!
1:36.7	Oh, I am so delighted to be here.
1:39.4	Very, very nice to connect with you.
1:41.1	Well, I am so thrilled you're here because this episode is very personal to myself and my wife
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