MTHFR
Makes an enzyme that helps produce a form of folate used in the processing of homocysteine. Common variants are different from rare variants that cause severe MTHFR deficiency.
Dealing with vertigo and have MTHFR? It could actually be due to lysine or iron deficiency
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Original sourceDan Purser MD on YouTube
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Do you think MTFR is related to vertigo or like dizziness bills or even tenonitis? If you have a lysine deficiency, Google it. Or if you have an iron deficiency, Google it. Or tinitus even can be from those or some other deficiency, but not always. It's really hard to resolve that, but um uh it would
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cause the vertigo. So lysine is another one of those amino acid deficiencies that can occur. Isn't that crazy? Lysine deficiency can cause vertigo. I think I had that recently on my last one and I started taking a big amino acid and it was it helps a lot. It's crazy. It's
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crazy how we've been doing this kind of testing for years, all of us. But different things in life, you know, you can still have deficiencies that come up you've never had before or Yeah. It's just kind of wait until you have kids. Yeah. You suddenly have 18 deficiency. You're like, I'm dying. Yeah. Everyone's
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in a constant flux all the time depending just on life, trauma, new diets, anything. It's everything is fluctuating. Yeah. Are we getting bad habits of eating the same thing over and over? I totally true.
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