> Methylation is a real biological function, but it has been co-opted by alternative medicine peddlers as a convenient (though incorrect) explanation for everyt

> Methylation is a real biological function, but it has been co-opted by alternative medicine peddlers as a convenient (though incorrect) explanation for everything. It’s part of a new wave of alternative medicine that takes real scientific concepts (methylation, glutamate/glutamine cycles) and tries to work backwards from symptoms to assume the status of various cycles in the body. I'm not gonna say you are wrong about this, but methylation is also a super hot topic right now among legitimate researchers and biotech companies. It's completely possible that anxiety-response is modulated by methylation of specific sites that produce cortisol and other biomarkers. Agree that it's not driven by methylation per se, but the biological response could be tested and proven by analysis for specific methylation patterns.