Is a Vitamin Deficiency the Root Cause of Your Problems?
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Homocysteine: how the story developed
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A marker, a mechanism and an outcome
Three different questions run through the history in this chapter. A marker is something resear…
Understanding homocysteine and its pathways
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Nutrition and unexpectedly low homocysteine
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This chapter asks whether an apparently reassuring laboratory number can hide a nutritional problem. That is a useful question, but the proposed answer must be tested rather than assumed. Protein intake, absorption, medicines, othe…
Homocysteine, monocytes, IL-8 and MCP-1
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Reading with perspective
This guide summarizes the chapter’s teaching. Proposed mechanisms and associations do not by them…
Genetics and the transsulfuration pathway
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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.
MTR
Makes the methionine synthase enzyme, which…
Homocysteine, inflammation and pain
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Pain is an experience, not one laboratory value
The source asks how inflammatory signals might influence pain pathways. A mechanism can explain why researchers investigate a connection without establishing that …
Homocysteine, D-dimer and inflammatory markers
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Follow the connections
The source discusses endothelial function, oxidative stress, platelet activation, coagulation and fibrinolysis. It compares D-dimer with…
Two studies behind the homocysteine–glutathione model
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A question for your next conversation
Was the actual product and delivery route studied, or only the molecule in an experimental syste…
Homocysteine and environmental exposures
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Homocysteine and cardiovascular risk
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Did the intervention improve health outcomes, or only the laboratory number?
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 se…
Methionine restriction: the questions behind the debate
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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.
Topics: methionine, protein restriction, homocy…
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