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Brown Rice Pilaf

Brown Rice Pilaf

Ingredients: 1 small sweet potato, chopped coarsely olive oil spray 1½ cups vegetable stock 1 tsp olive oil 1 small brown onion, finely chopped 1 clove garlic, crushed 1 trimmed celery stalk, finely chopped ¾ cup brown rice 1 Tbsp grated lemon rind ¼ cup loosely packed flat-leaf parsley leaves Method: Preheat oven to 180°C

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Leek and Sweet Potato Soup

Leek and Sweet Potato Soup

Ingredients: 1 tsp olive oil 1 clove of garlic, crushed ½ tsp thyme leaves 1 small leek, sliced thinly 1 small sweet potato (200g), chopped coarsely 2 cups vegetable stock ½ green onion to serve Method: Heat oil in a small saucepan: cook garlic, thyme and leek until soft. Add potato and stock and bring

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MTHFR and Fertility Complications

MTHFR and Fertility Complications

You’re ready to become a parent. You replaced birth control pills with prenatal vitamins, expecting to be expecting any day now. After a few months, you begin to think your early pregnancy tests are defective since there’s no “+” sign or blue line in sight. Next up, you visit the infertility specialist for some tests.

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Stir-Fried Asian Greens (with chicken or fish)

Stir-Fried Asian Greens (with chicken or fish)

Ingredients: 1 tsp sesame oil 1 tsp olive oil 2cm piece of ginger, grated 1 clove of garlic, crushed 1 birds eye chilli, finely chopped (take the seeds out if you don’t like it too spicy) 100g broccolini, chopped coarsely 100g asian broccoli, chopped coarsely 150g wombok, sliced thinly 1 Tbsp water 2 tsp tamari

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Did You Know? Creatine

Did You Know? Creatine

You may have heard of creatine before, probably for its ability to enhance athletic performance. But, did you know that creatine can also help improve mental performance, fertility, digestion, hearing, and your skin? We speak a lot about how MTHFR mutations reduce your ability to effectively methylate things within your body, and naturally occurring creatine

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Mediterranean Vegetable Soup

Mediterranean Vegetable Soup

Ingredients: 1 tbsp olive oil 1 onion, diced 1 carrot, halved lengthwise and sliced 2 stalks celery, sliced 3 cloves garlic, crushed 2 cups vegetable stock (salt reduced) 2 cups water 400g diced ripe tomatoes 1 tbsp fresh basil, chopped ½ tsp dried oregano Salt and pepper to taste 400g cannellini or white beans 1

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Vitamin B6 and MTHFR

Vitamin B6 and MTHFR

The vitamins B12, B6, and folate are vital in developing and maintaining function of the brain. Deficiency in these vitamins at any stage of the life cycle has been linked to psychiatric and neurologic diseases, but exactly how a deficiency causes this is uncertain. The relationship between B vitamins and neurological diseases are thought to

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Health Tips for MTHFR

Health Tips for MTHFR

Living a normal life unhindered by an MTHFR deficiency is very attainable and prevention is definitely the best course of action. Making the changes recommended in this article are important so you can optimize your folate levels and minimize the effects that the environment may have on the expression of the gene. Remember that you

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Tasty Quinoa Cereal

Tasty Quinoa Cereal

Ingredients: 1 cup of white quinoa uncooked 1 cup of water 1 cup of almond milk 1 grated green apple (with peel and juice) 1 cup of frozen or fresh berries 2 Tbsp of pepitas 2 Tbsp of sunflower seeds 1 tsp of cinnamon 1 vanilla pod (and/or seeds scaped from the inside) Method: Bring

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How Camping Can Improve Your Sleep

How Camping Can Improve Your Sleep

Our Environments Are Artificial In today’s age our environments are almost completely artificial, we have artificial light, artificial environments, artificial food (think packaged and fast foods), and artificial sleeping schedules. Our ancestors were not exposed to artificial light all day long. Our ancestors evolved to sleep and wake up with cycles of the sun, and

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