I am feeling like I am a science experiment that I am trying to solve. Weird things happen to me. Three miscarriages, almost no eggs left (are my ovaries failing at age 33), dizziness that led me to find out I have an incomplete right bundle branch block, horrible night terrors as a child, constant rashes as child, and heart palpitations. Not to mention one leg is almost an inch longer, I have a slight bit of scoliosis, and was born with a Stills heart murmur. The heart palpitations I have been having since I was about 12. I was told they were nothing and I would grow out of them. I have never grown out of them. Actually just yesterday I woke up feeling like my heart was racing. It came and went for about an hour after I woke up. At one point it felt really bad so I used my blood pressure monitor to take my pulse...it was 106 beats per minute. What the hell is going on with me?!? I am 33 years old. I am healthy, slender, eat well and exercise (well kind of I take lots of walks and chase after a 2 year old).
Recently I did find out something about myself that I think is a huge missing piece to my puzzle. I found out I have a MTHFR (Methylenetetrahydrofolate Reductase) mutation. I am heterozygous A1298C. This means I have a reduced ability to process folic acid/ folate into something my body can use. In other words I can not metabolize synthetic folic acid. Which is a bit of a problem because folic acid is added to nearly every multivitamin and food. If you have a MTHFR mutation it is recommended to stay clear from anything with folic acid. It can build up in your system and act like a toxin. Instead you should be taking methylfolate and methyl B12.
Speaking of toxins...MTHFR can make you very susceptible to toxins and chemicals. When exposed too many toxins and chemicals it can trigger the MTHFR gene mutation and cause many illnesses and disorders. Autism, autoimmune diseases, allergies, recurrent pregnancy loss, addictions, pulmonary embolisms, depression, schizophrenia, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, chemical sensitivity, Parkinson's, irritable bowel syndrome, pre-eclampsia, stroke, spina bifida, acute lymphoblastic leukemia, vascular dementia, bipolar disorder, male infertility, blood clots, rectal cancer, meningioma, congenital heart defects, infant depression, deficits in childhood cognitive development, gastric cancer, migraines, low HDL, high homocysteine, post-menopausal breast cancer, atherosclerosis, oral clefts, type 1 diabetes, epilepsy, Alzheimer's, potential drug toxicities, cervical dysplasia, multiple sclerosis, hypertension, prostate cancer, premature death, placental abruption, heart attack, methotrexate toxicity, heart murmurs, tight anal sphincters, tongue tie, unexplained neurologic disease, asthma, shortness of breath, bladder cancer, scoliosis and many more diseases and disorders.
If you have a MTHFR mutation I can not stress enough how important it is to limit your exposure to toxins and chemicals. Us MTHFR's have a very hard time ridding our systems of those yucky harmful toxins. Eat clean...no processed foods, grass fed meats, antibiotic free dairy and eggs, organic, free of pesticides, and non-GMO. Be careful what you put on your skin. Makeup, shampoos, lotions, hair products, toothpaste, deodorant and sunscreens all can have very harmful chemicals that easily absorb through you skin. Use non-toxic paint. Make your own cleaning products, dish soap and laundry soap. Weed killer and bug killer are also bad. Check your drinking water...you may want to invest in a whole house water osmosis system. And I hate to say it because now I am going to get so many eye rolls and negative comments come my way...absolutely no vaccines!
Be clean, eat clean, live clean. My general rule is that if I don't know what the ingredients are I don't use it. It will be good for you, your children, your pets and also Mother earth.
