We can't change things that have happened to us but we can change the way our body deals with it. Proper Methylation is responsible for Neurotransmitter Balance, Efficient Detoxification and Efficient Cellular Energy Production; it is responsible for how your body experiences health and deals with inflammation. This is the reason I’m so dedicated to raising awareness about how diet and lifestyle have a direct affect on the methylation process. Most people approach Trich through trying to manage their thought patterns. Changing thought patterns to be more supportive of YOU will absolutely improve the way your body methylates but your thought patterns are the hardest thing to change. Medication affects the way you produce neurotransmitters but it does not support neurotransmitter balance and most will further complicate the body’s ability to methylate properly.
NAC, SAMe, Inositol… etc, all of these natural approaches influence the body’s methylation process and this is why they help in many cases. Regardless of how you decide to treat Trich, without complimenting treatment options with diet and lifestyle changes you will most likely not make significant improvements. This is why I’m so passionate about lifestyle change. Most of us feel like it would be impossible to change the way we think but we can start to improve the methylation process without changing thought patterns and when we take steps to improve methylation through lifestyle it makes changing thought patterns so much easier. I wish there was a magic bullet, I wish you could simply take the “blue pill” and not have to change anything but it is simply not the truth. Research methylation or DNA metylation and epigenetics; if you are asking the right questions, you will come to some startling conclusions.
(Medical Xpress)—Early life experience results in a broad change in the way our DNA is "epigenetically" chemically marked in the brain by a coat of small chemicals called methyl groups, according to researchers at McGill University. A group of researchers led by Prof. Moshe Szyf, a professor of Pharmacology and Therapeutics in the Faculty of Medicine, and research scientists at the Douglas Institute have discovered a remarkable similarity in the way the DNA in human brains and the DNA in animal brains respond to early life adversity. The finding suggests an evolutionary conserved mechanism of response to early life adversity affecting a large number of genes in the genome. Read more at: http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-evidence-biological-embeds-social-dna.html#jCp
Methylation Made Easy Part 1
Methylation Made Easy Part 2
Methylation Made Easy Part 3
Methylation Made Easy Part 4
I'm reposting this audio because it's important. If you see a Doctor, ask them to do some new research and if they are not willing to do so then find a new Doctor. Find a Doctor that practices Functional Medicine!
Julia Ross, MA explains why neurotransmitter balance is so important and how Balance can be achieved through Lifestyle Change and Amino Acid Supplementation.
http://www.bewellnsb.com/howneurotransmitterswork.mp3
Challenges of Patient Resistance and Compliance - Combining Nutrition with Psychology. Featuring: Marla Friedman, PhD Click link: http://www.bewellnsb.com/nutritionwithpsychology.mp3
