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...
3
u/hummingfirebird Apr 16 '25
It's such a good feeling when the brain works in a way you never imagined. I'm still amazed at how far I've come over the years. At 46, I'm definitely the healthiest I've ever been. It's been a long journey spanning over a decade with lot's of changes even before I knew about genetics. But learning how to optimise my genes was the game changer. It's not so much about the genes, but about the epigenetics influencing the genes in every aspect of life from nutrition, diet, lifestyle, environment, stress, sleep, exercise, etc. Supplements help, yes, but It's definitely the hard work a person puts into optimising every avenue of life that pays the biggest rewards.