Rick's SNP - Navigating the Genetics of Iron Overload
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Slow on updates lately

9/15/2013

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So I found out about some different SNPs that are impacting my family's health and have gone down that rabbit hole for a while.  This is the MTHFR that I have been commenting on, and this is way more complicated than HFE!  For HFE folks the big issue is that the 'methylation' cycle mutations can affect your ability to create red blood cells and affect your ability to turn on and off protein production from your genes.  So a bad C282Y gene could easily get stuck in the on state even if you are not eating a high iron diet.  This would keep your TS score high and cause more cell damage than if the gene was shutting off normally.  Easier 'cure' than HFE, just decypher your SNPs and learn what vitamins your body needs to skirt or support the methylation cycle and you are good to go.  But that is a bit harder to figure out than it sounds.  Methylated B12 is the best place to start for most people, but not all.  It is a good test to buy a bottle and see if using it makes your mind less foggy.  Lots more to come on this, but I wanted to say at least this much since I have gotten quiet on here.  I do not think I have made an update on this site in 4 weeks.  That is not meeting the standard that I want to hold myself to.
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    My name is Rick and the SNP which I refer to is a C282Y homozygous variant in my HFE gene.  This site is devoted to making that sentence sound like simple English.

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