The Ins and Outs of COMT – August 3rd, 2018

 

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August 3rd, 2018

The Ins and Outs of COMT

If you’ve been on any of my nutrigenomics calls, you know that COMT is mentioned a lot.   COMT, catecholamine-o-methyltransferase, is an enzyme coded by the COMT gene, and SNPs are found to be present in approximately 80% of the population.

This article does an excellent job of explaining what COMT is, what it does, and what happens when it’s not functioning at full capacity.