Don't be a generic parent, but become a Genetic parent - low budget medical solution

Genetic parenting tips are great.  Moms and dads learning how to save money is nice, and tips for raising children is very useful.  The difficulty is that sometimes there are specific situations, and the generalized tips might not work.

When I suggest that you should become a Genetic parent, I mean it directly.  You should get your child's genes checked. There are several ways to do this, but this topic is mainly for those on a low budget.

There are a large number of genetic predispositions that a child could have, and many of them could influence diet, activity, medication and treatment for certain aspects. Those who take my advice, I would like for you to take caution along this path.  It would be very easy to become overwhelmed in fear at the results of these genetic things, but this is about improving a person's life.

These types of genetic tests can be done through medical insurance very easily, but some say that it's difficult to convince the doctor to do the full panel of testing.  If someone had difficulty or no insurance, my suggestion would be an ancestry DNA test that only costs 39 dollars right now on sale. Many people already have these tests, and simply need to go download a copy of their results from ancestry website.

With the DNA results downloaded, there is a site called geneticgenie which uses the DNA results into three different reports.  The first is genvue report which will have three tabs of genetic conditions, drug interactions, and other risks.

For each of the results that genvue gives, it will tell you if it's clinically significant, and what percentage of the population has it.  Just because you might have the genes, doesn't mean that you have the condition.  Further testing might tell if you're just a carrier, but some results might say that you're likely to express these symptoms since perhaps you've got multiple copies of the same thing.

Nobody knows what the results would be, as they could be life changing.  Just learning about all of this within the last month, I am still coming to understand what my mthfr gene likely means.  There are several different types of this mutation, and symptoms vary depending on the version.

My version of mthfr (methyl folate resistence) is called C677T and only a single version of it means that I have something like a thirty percent decreased ability to process folate that is abundant from enriched breads and grains. This suggests that I shouldn't eat processed sugar, or enriched foods.  It also suggests that I need to supplement with methyl folate and methyl b12 since my body has some difficulty processing folate.  This might mess with dopamine pathways in some, but people also report autism symptoms linked to this.

Since I don't know much about mthfr, I am not claiming to know how to treat it, symptoms, or even general understanding.  What I do know is that there are some parents looking for answers, and thirty nine dollars might give some significant answers.

You could find out that a specific medication doesn't work well for you, or that you have a rare and dangerous condition to monitor.  It is best to know these things, because our choices for a healthy life might not be the best for our specific body.  That is why I am suggesting that people might take the genetic outlook toward parenting.

What if you're not a bad parent?  What if the struggles aren't your fault?  What if some extremely rare and hard to diagnose thing slipped by the doctors?  What if less than forty bucks is the beginning of your path toward peace and away from pain?

Oh the other two types of reports are a methylation report and a detox report.  It was interesting to see that I am likely a slow metabolizer of many medications due to my COMT results, and it also might give result on how your body acetylates substances.

I am not a doctor, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn a while back

Here's a methylation profile.

The green indicates no mutation, and yellow is one allele changed/mutated and red is two alleles changed/mutated.

The list at the bottom for things not in file is because this isn't an expansive test.

Already having the DNA test, this information was free to me, but I would suspect that this ancestry DNA method is cheaper than traditional, although I admit that I don't know the cost of this genetic testing without medical insurance.