What is Methylation and Treating the Root Cause of Disease with Dr. Benjamin Lynch

In today's podcast, we have Methylation process expert Benjamin Lynch who is a naturopathic doctor. He received his Cell and Molecular Biology, BS from the University of Washington and his ND from Bastyr University. His passion for identifying the cause of disease directed him towards nutrigenomics and methylation dysfunction. Currently, he researches, writes and presents worldwide on the topic of MTHFR and methylation defects. He is the author of Dirty Genes. You may learn more about Dr. Lynch and his work at www.drbenlynch.com. Dr Lynch is also the President & Founder of www.SeekingHealth.com, a company oriented towards disease prevention and health promotion. He lives in Seattle, WA with his wife, Nadia, and three boys, Tasman, Mathew and Theodor. Here are insights and questions answered: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2:06 1. Why did you start getting into methylation and MDFHR? - “I don’t like my patients not getting better” - Newborns have over 200 chemicals in their system through the umbilical cord blood - Children are living through chronic disease, even before birth - To see how to reduce exposure and why we’re getting sicker - You can’t understand a patient without diving deeper and understanding their unique genetics 3:25 2. What is Methylation and why is it a problem? - It is an action — “ation” ; methel is what it acts on - Methel is the simplest compound. It’s carbon and 3 hydrogens. 1. It turns on and off our genes - We don’t want our genes on all the time - Turning on wrong ones can lead to cancer - Our genes have to communicate properly 2. It transforms genes to others - It bounces off one thing to another. When it bounces to one thing, it changes its function. - For example, seratonin. Methylation will change seratonin to melatonin. - It creates many different chemical reactions. - When it isn’t working, you are not working. You have risks of having different symptoms. 5:47 3. Would you argue that that’s why we have an explosion of epidemic of chronic illness? - We have an explosion of chronic illness because of the methylation pathway in our system is doing too much. - Our bodies are always trying to support us — all the time. - We don’t have symtomps because our bodies are trying to kill us. We have symptoms because our genes aren’t working how we want them to work. - If we’re exposed to heavy metals, chemicals, the methylation pathways are being overworked - You have to put less work and demand on your genes and you will feel better 7:22 4. What have we changed in the last few decades that we’re overworking? What are the other things that can decrease overworking? - The amount of chemicals in our environment have exploded - Part of those are heavy metals - They are prevasive. They are in our food, air and products we touch even on a daily basis - Technology is also polluting us. - 10% of drinking water in US is high in arsenic levels - We eat chicken which is high in arsenic - Arsenic is processed in the body via methylation - If methylation isn’t working, you will have high arsenic levels which can lead to cancer - We have plastics, sprays, insecticides, herbicides. - The more toxins we have in the body, the more work for genes and more vitamins and minerals they need For rest of the insights and takeaways from the show, click this link! >> https://www.healerpedia.com/podcasts/what-is-methylation-and-treating-the-root-cause-of-disease-with-dr-benjamin-lynch-574