Mysteries are being Solved!!!

Hi! And Happy New Year to everyone!! We’ve started the year with snow again today. So pretty, and I’m so glad that I didn’t have to go anywhere! However, our snow is nothing compared to Spokane and area! Wow!! I think I wouldn’t want to be there. Remember, spring is just around the corner!!

Well, I received the neatest Christmas gift from MD Sister! And I’ve been reading it ever since it entered the house. It’s a book called “Nourishing Traditions”. I think that I mentioned it in a previous post. It has spurred me on to more reading and more research and more Hmmm, “Could that be why…?” So very interesting and thought provoking. You know when you’re on the internet and you’re reading an article and it has a link or a word or something and you just keep clicking and reading. That’s what I have been doing. The book started the search and I learned so much that I just couldn’t stop.

I was reading some reviews of a particular supplement and up popped the letters “MTHFR”. Probably doesn’t mean too much to most of you, but those letters refer to a gene that has to do with B vitamins. As you know, if you’ve read this blog, I had gene testing for oxidative stress and how my body metabolizes B vitamins. My oxidative stress levels came back OK. I metabolize anti-oxidants just fine. However, my body does not metabolize B vitamins, efficiently. So...what does that mean. Genetic testing is so new that most Dr.s are not current in the field. So, it’s been up to me to do the research and figure it out, for now.

So, this review was from Australia. I find that they and European countries seem to be “less owned” by the pharmaceutical companies, so they are more open to natural or alternative health solutions. This study claims that most people who test positive for the MTHFR polymorphism cannot absorb folic acid very well. So then, off to folic acid deficiencies. This leads to methylation pathways. The next is what I found.


“Defects in methylation lay the appropriate groundwork for the further assault of environmental and infectious agents resulting in a wide range of conditions including diabetes, cardiovascular disease, thyroid dysfunction, neurological inflammation, diabetes, chronic viral infection, neurotransmitter imbalances, atherosclerosis, cancer, aging, schizophrenia, decreased repair of tissue damage, improper immune function, neural tube defects, Down’s syndrome, Multiple Sclerosis, Huntington’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease, as well as autism.” Wow!! Several of these diseases are prevalent in my extended family. Thyroid, Parkinson’s, diabetes, and Multiple Sclerosis, are some that stick out.

And then I started looking into early and on-going symptom, such as dry, brittle hair, cracked and peeling lips, eczema, and digestive problems. All of these symptoms I have and more and most of my relatives have some, if not all. My granddaughters are starting to present with some of them, also. So, we need to be able to absorb more vital nutrients, especially B vitamins. Back to the book!!!

“Nourishing Traditions” tells of old and “ancient” ways to prepare food to make vitamins and minerals more available to our body’s metabolism. 1st and easiest is draining the whey from yogurt and incorporating that into one’s diet. I have, and am noticing a difference, already. My skin is in pretty good shape, but without changing anything in my skin care regime or my supplements, it is sooo much smoother and softer. Not just my face….my arms and legs, too. My lips are smoother, also. It’s been 2 weeks, plus, and my hair is beginning to feel like hair, for the first time in my life. Turns out that whey has glutathione in it, which is considered the master antioxidant. Glutathione is going to have to be a post of its own. And my brain has glazed over, so goodnight, for now!!!

Stay tuned…
Your Smiling Maven....
We're going to get healthier!!!