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Wondering how to get tested for MTHFR and other methylation gene issues?

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How do you get tested for MTFR? We're getting a lot of those questions again. Get genetic testing. Either our foundation methionic kit you can get on our is that in our Tik Tok store. Oh, well, reach out to us. That's all I can say. I can't say anything more on here. No, you can. Or what? Go to our website or Yeah, go to our website. Can I say that? Yeah, you're fine. Or reach out to

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the clinic and we can discuss. It they're the quickest. I was going to say 23 me, but that's gone or it's dead currently right now. Yeah. Yeah. It's not gone. It's just shut down because it got hacked. Well, you can't connect it to new tracker, which is what we need to

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see. You can do a 23 and me right now, but it doesn't let you have raw data to get your genetics, which a lot of those companies right now are dealing with security issues. So, I would double check. Okay. Yeah. So, get a foundation methylation kit. Cheap. Couple hundred bucks. Really, we know the results

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pretty quick. We can tell how many methylation snips you have. So, if you know you have empty, I designed that test actually. Yeah. And my book was number one for ever and ever.

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