February 22, 2017

Can Vitamin D fight aging?

“It’s paradoxical that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn’t appeal to anyone.” ― Andy Rooney Aging is an unavoidable part of life, but does it have to start so quickly?  it’s painfully visible on the outside and we all lament the grey hairs and the smile lines, but on the inside it’s a more intricate story. At the end of every chromosome is a ‘cap’ or a telomere that […]
January 4, 2016

Can your diet really work with your genes?

So you find out you have an MTHFR variant, and maybe a few others. Now what? Can your diet really make a difference? When you’re thinking DNA, you probably don’t think ‘greens and beens’. But what you eat works intimately with the genes you’ve been dealt and this is why there’s been a lot of buzz around methylation, folate and MTHFR.