29: Methylation Problems & Gene Mutations

The Wellness Mama Podcast

Katie Wells

Natural Living, Nutrition, Kids & Family, Mom Life, Health & Fitness, Education, Wellness, Health, Motherhood, Self-improvement, Parenting, Organic

4.8 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2015

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Dr. Ben Lynch is a naturopathic doctor and world expert on MTHFR genes and methylation problems. In this episode, we talk about the many ways that methylation problems can affect health, especially for women. What is MTHFR?The methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) gene produces the MTHFR enzyme, which is responsible for breaking down (methylating) folate in the body. Up to 50% of Americans have an MTHFR gene defect of some type that impairs their ability to mthylat...

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0:00.0	Hi and welcome to the Wellness Mama podcast.
0:21.3	I'm Katie from WellnessMama.com.
0:23.5	Today's interesting fact.
0:24.8	Did you know that dogs and cats are not the only mammals that shed?
0:28.3	The human body is constantly shedding dead skin to the tune of 600,000 particles every
0:33.0	single year or about 1.5 pounds of discarded skin flakes.
0:37.2	By age 70, this will have led up to approximately 105 pounds of dead skin cells.
0:42.9	Today's guest, Dr. Ben Lynch, is a cell and molecular biologist and a functional medicine
0:47.2	doctor who specializes in MTHFR gene mutations.
0:51.2	He's also a father and a husband, he has three boys and he's lived everywhere from Calcutta
0:56.0	to Australia to Somosomo and traveled everywhere in between.
1:00.0	He founded MTHFR.net and seekinghealth.com and spends his time speaking, presenting and
1:05.9	writing about methylation related health problems.
1:08.5	Dr. Ben welcome and thank you for being here.
1:10.9	Thank you, Katie.
1:11.9	It's pleasure.
1:12.9	Awesome.
1:13.9	I'm excited to have you on to really delve into what I believe is becoming a really widespread
1:17.5	problem but that I don't feel like there's very much awareness about and I've written
1:21.0	with on it a little bit but I'm by no means an expert in you are so I'm excited to have
1:24.9	you here to delve in.
1:26.5	And this issue is methylation and MTHFR gene defects and so from my understanding which
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