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Today we continue to share videos celebrating a few of our AFMC-certified practitioners – and key clinical pearls we can all take from their case successes.
This one features a woman in her late 60’s who was looking for support to stop the progress of cardiovascular disease from hypertension, with warning signs of elevated hsCRP and homocysteine. She *thought* she had all the answers from her genetic assessment. But as you will see, the devil in the detail made all the difference!
Check out the video to explore…
- The allure of SNPs testing is powerful! But what’s the catch?
- Methylation, MTHFR, elevated hsCRP, and homocysteine. What’s the connection? It’s not as simple as you may think.
- The devil in the detail strikes again. It’s Not just about methylfolate.
- A powerful example of your critical opportunity to educate, empower and inspire your clients to go beyond genetic information.
- Are you missing key pearls available from everyday annual physical labwork?
- And much more!
To date, we have featured many excellent success stories from our AFMC-certified practitioner community. If you missed the others, you might click to watch Davina’s case or click to watch Julie’s case.
Thank you so much for joining in. I wish you well in your practice growth!
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SAFM Team says:
Vitamin B12 is a nutrient. You can measure serum B12 as a marker of sufficient intake, digestion, and absorption from the GI tract, but it tells you nothing about intracellular sufficiency. For that, we must look at functional or cellular (not serum) markers like MCV, HCY (homocysteine), or MMA. Methylmalonic acid (MMA) is an organic acid, measurable in urine or blood, that is synthesized by cells when there is insufficient intracellular availability of Vitamin B12 (specifically the adenosyl form). So ideally the level of MMA is quite low, indicating consistent intracellular availability of B12. But a person can have a high MMA and have either a low, normal, or a high level of serum B12. Overall a great reminder that the phrase, “You are what you eat.” is woefully oversimplified. We are what we eat, digest, absorb, (but also!) convert to various final forms, and get past the cell membrane. This will be a helpful read for you: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6412945/ .
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What is the difference between B12 and methamalonic acid? I thought they were the same thing.