MTHFR Detox Why Is it Important? Spend five minutes researching MTHFR and you'll come across the impact it has on detoxification in the body. MTHFR compromises detox, reduces our bodies abilities to detox, hinders detox... dire warnings. So, what can we do? Our bodies' natural abilities to detox are reduced - how can we help support it to … [Read more...]
Five Tips for Sneaking Leafy Greens into Your MTHFR Kids
Five Tips for Sneaking Leafy Greens into Your MTHFR Kids We all know it's not the easiest thing to get most kids to eat their veggies. And leafy greens? That can take boss battle skills. The truth is though, MTHFR Kids especially should be eating more leafy greens than their non-mutant counterparts. Heck, all of us MTHFR mutants should! Over … [Read more...]
Nutritional Foundations for MTHFR Kids
We all do our best to make sure we raise healthy and happy kids. One of the most important places we look to do this is through the food we feed them and the supplements we may give them. As a student in a nutritional therapy consultant program through the Nutritional Therapy Association, I've learned a lot about basic nutritional … [Read more...]
Chew Your Food! And Other Important Digestion Tips for Kids
We all know we're supposed to sit still, eat slowly and chew our food well. But that doesn't always play out at the dinner table when it comes to kids. (Heck, it doesn't always play out for me when I'm shoveling my kids' leftovers into my mouth while standing over the sink.) Aside from preventing a choking hazard, there is another really good … [Read more...]
MTHFR Kids Halloween Survival Guide
For kids on Halloween, nothing can be scarier than ghosts, witches, vampires and other things that go bump in the night. But for many parents of MTHFR Kids, there is something far more real and scary than any of those fictitious frights combined: Candy. Sugars, preservatives, food dyes, hydrogenated oils, MSG... these are a handful of the … [Read more...]