Ippodrom47
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Hi! Really need your help here. My homocysteine (non-fasting, I did it on purpose to catch myself in an "off" feeling 3 hours after a meal) is 13.6 (range 5-15), which is, as I understand, not ideal but no too horrible either. I will retest my fasting serum folate in the nearest future.If you have poorly functioning methylation, everything becomes a problem, especially your liver‘s detoxification and gallbladder function.
Can I still have bad methylation despite having normal homocysteine?
Also, and most important. Can poor methylation be responsible for the following:
- inability to eat rice on a regular basis due to arsenic toxicity (get terrible brain fog, dizziness and white spots on nails);
- feeling very bad on days when air pollution is high. When there's visible smog, I instantly get irritable, moody, lightheaded and fatigued.
- being unable to eat high amounts of high oxalate foods. Buckwheat used to be my staple but now it knocks me off for a couple hours.
- feeling better after a blood draw. Even one 5 ml vial is good, but several of those are even better. I'm instantly more energetic, don't have brain fog and feel fine for a day or two.
It's like there's something in my blood that the body has a hard time getting rid of and getting a blood draw reduces this burden. As I understand it, methylation equals detox and without fixing my folate I won't resolve my issues. Edit: it's not iron (hemochromatosis) although I do have a single mutation. My transferrin saturation and ferritin are both fine.