If you happened upon this post with interest in how MTHFR can cause near sightedness, you’ll be sadly disappointed. You’re probably looking for affirmation that the cause of all your problems stem from a MTHFR dysfunction. Instead, I hope to provide information for those practitioners and general population people that learn just enough about MTHFR to become dangerous…and careless…and myopic.
For those that are still hung up on the letters MTHFR and wondering if I just insulted you, let me explain. Actually, let me give you the meaning of life. Ready? Life is like our favorite food. You need ingredients and directions to create a finished product.
Substrate + Enzyme/Co-Factors = Product.
Substrates are your basic ingredients. These are your lifestyle choices, circumstances, perceptions, nutrition levels, social influences, movement patterns, and all the variables in life. This accounts for 98% of your health outcomes (finished product).
The enzymes are coded for in your DNA. This is your recipe guide. It’s the constant in the equation, it doesn’t change. There can be tweaks here and there but any typos in that recipe can most often be corrected for by changing your spices, heating, altitude, etc (i.e. co-factors).
The product is you and your health expression. You have an amazing recipe and access to ingredients to live a life your ancestors only dreamed about.
The better your ingredients, the better the product. This life recipe has stood the test of time but because it’s a copy from your great-great-great grandmother x 10,000 years, some of the print may be a bit faded or maybe even contain some typos? You’ve seen plenty of those in my posts. Depending on your surrounding environment, you may get caught up on those typos and decide you don’t want to read any further. You’re disgusted by my ineptness of editing and disregard anything I’ve ever said because I used the wrong version of affect versus effect.
For the majority of you, it’s no big deal, you’re kind and forgiving and will send a sweet email directing me to a correction that needs attention. I appreciate those.
Typos
This ‘typo’ is a simplistic way of looking at MTHFR. In essence there’s a deviation in the code from your DNA and it may or may not affect you…or is that effect? I’ll never understand that one.