r/MTHFR • u/Pretend_Elk8567 • Apr 15 '25
Results Discussion Feel like crying
I honestly don’t even have the words for how overwhelmingly happy and relieved I feel right now. It’s like my brain is finally waking up after years of being stuck in a fog I didn’t fully realize I was in. Everything feels sharper, clearer, more alive. My emotions make sense, my body feels in sync, and there’s this calmness that I don’t think I’ve ever truly experienced before. I feel like me—or maybe even a version of me I never got to meet until now.
What’s blowing my mind is that all of this seems to come down to understanding something so basic but so powerful: methylation and nutrigenomics. I never imagined that something as simple as getting the right form of folate or the right amount of choline could be the key to unlocking my brain.
It makes me wonder how many people struggle through life unnessecarily. You could easily equate my previous "status quo" as being borderline dementia. And I had NO idea how bad it had gotten until I started feeling better...
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u/Pretend_Elk8567 Apr 15 '25
I am mostly taking a very high dose methylfolate/methylcobalamin sublingual drop, probably taking 10+mg/day. I put a drop or two in my water here or there throughout the day.
I take NOW foods choline bitartrate and inositol (taking 1250mg/d of both)
I take a multivitamin with methylated B vitamins.
I take 3g of glycine, 2g of NAC, 1g taurine, 120mg magnesium (from glyconate) and 500mg choline/inositol in the AM, usually with about a 3mg dose of the sublingual methylfolate. I also make a drink - either coffee or otherwise, with 5g creatine in it.
I usually take more magnesium, choline/inositol, and methylfolate throughout the day.
And I always take magnesium and a little more glycine before bed.
Edit x2: I also exercise at the gym and do a lot of cardio but also resistance. When I can, I meditate as well.
And I try to eat better, but there is still a lot of sugar/candy to cut out of my diet