MTHFR!
Growing up many (many) years ago, what was deemed healthy was a bit different. Margarine was good for you, cereal was the most important meal of the day and diet coke was the healthy choice.
My family was a bit more "weird" in that we chose natural medicine over pharmaceuticals and treated a lot of things with diet. So when I first started dating my wife and was offered margarine on white bread, it was a shock to the system. Next thing there was shelf in the fridge with "Matt's stuff" like butter and wholewheat bread.
A couple years later and my wife frowned when I didn't want organic quinoa and mushroom steaks. How things change.
The science of being healthy is always progressing. But it sometimes gets a bit overwhelming, so some people latch on to the latest buzzwords.
My current favourite question I get asked is "Does the Daily Shake have methylated B vitamins? Because that is the most absorbable form otherwise you just have expensive urine."
Weeeellllll.... I did a little research. What is methylation? Methylation basically turns non-usable raw materials into bioactive (useable) materials. It is a process the body does. So the theory is that if you give the body already methylated vitamins, they work better.
Except... There are 8 B vitamins, 9 if you include Inositol. Only B9 and B12 can already be methylated. So firstly, the other 6 can't be a methylated version. Second, unless you have the gene mutation MTHFR (I didn't make that up, it actually stands for methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase) you should be able to methylate nutrients automatically. And some studies suggest that your body may absorb unmethylated B12 cyanocobalamin slightly better than methylated B12 methylcobalamin.
For the record, The Daily Shake does have methylcobalamin just in case you are MTHFR, plus it has a couple other goodies!
So science is always discovering new things, popular diets change and we'll keep trying to simplify it all.
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