caledonia
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Caledonia, thanks for mentioning nutreval. Both my ND and my functional MD want me to have it. We are waiting till the first of the year when I get medicare as Genova bills medicare....
So, Caledonia, and anyone, are there tests we can do regularly that will help understand our methylation status? I can do thyroid, homocysteine, and other tests but what common tests might these "essential" tests be? My ND only thinks Doctor's Data at Seeking Health for 195 dollars will work. That is unsustainable as my health status changes.
Unfortunately, there are no cheap tests to evaluate methylation that I know of. For example, I have horrible methylation but my homocysteine is fine. My serum B12 is 800 (right in the middle of normal), but my B12 is non-existent on a good test.
I did 23andme, the HDRI Methylation Panel and the Nutreval test. I have not repeated these tests. I've done other periphery tests though - stool test, Urine Toxic Metals and Essential Elements, and complete thyroid panel to spot check how I'm doing. An 24 hour adrenal saliva test is on my list of stuff to do, but I haven't done it yet.
Mainly, I'm going by how I feel. I keep a symptom journal and I can see improvement over time in many areas.
If you have MCS, you can use that as a gauge of how much reduced glutathione you're making. That's about the closest I can think of to a "poor man's" methylation test. My MCS is about 60% improved. I still have trouble with some things, but in general, I can leave the house and not worry too much about what chemicals I'll run into. I've been as bad as not being able to go out of the house due to reacting to every little thing, being able to smell and react to people 20 feet away and so forth.
ps. when you do the Nutreval, analyze it with the Nutreval Intepretation Guide linked in my signature to get the most information out of it.