Levomefolic acid

And you can supplement with it.

And she mentioned methylfolate.

Methylfolate is the more bioavailable, usable to our body folate.

So that you can get in supplement form, right? Maybe because their soil isn't nutrient dense or food isn't nutrient dense and you're not focusing on food as much.

So it makes sense to overcompensate, if you will, with supplementing a bit more with B vitamins for your body's not that good at utilizing in the first place.

It's not found anywhere in nature, that form.

Methylfolate, on the other hand, represents, I think it's like 97% of the circulating folate in the body is the methylated form.

At the time that the research on neural tube defects was being done, that form didn't exist in supplement form.

It's a lot more expensive to make than the cheap, uh, synthetic folic acid.

It's present in, I think, the vast majority of cord blood samples when it's been tested, is that there's an un- you know, an excess of unmetabolized folic acid.

So in general, I would say our perspective at Needed is that unmetabolized folic acid can do some harm.

Methylfolate has been proven to be well-absorbed, you know, in, you know, basically the underlying mechanism of preventing neural tube defects or, you know, other complications is maternal folate status, and methylfolate is effective at raising maternal folate status.

And for populations that aren't pregnant, there's really, really not a harm.

Folate occurs naturally in nature, folic acid does not.

So if you're going to supplement for folate, the best way to supplement is with something called methylfolate or 5-MTHF.

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Now let me explain what that is.

Cerebral folate deficiency is when that vitamin, folate, folic acid, folinic acid, methylfolate, 5-MTHF, all these different forms, is inside the body, and it's inside the bloodstream, and it's swimming around, and it's having great effects inside the bloodstream and inside the body, except the brain.

Okay? Now the brain is a very controlled organ because trust me, the body does not want anything just getting into the brain 'cause bad things can happen.

So there's a very tight wall between the bloodstream and the brain, and only certain things can get back and forth, and it's very regulated and very controlled.

So it includes phytic acid, it includes anger management, but includes our super serotonin and our attention on the double.

Those amino acids can help the phytic acid work better, okay? Or try the methylfolate.

Like I said, the kids who aren't improving on the phytic with language, add methylfolate, 5-MTHF.

Try that too.

I didn't go too deep into it.

Um, I did notice, you know, I've got that MTHFR gene, but what was interesting is that, you know, too much folic acid or, you know, um, what do you say? Methylfolate doesn't necessarily help me, and they kind of, if I look, digged a little deeper, there was something about taking a lot of choline.

So, you know, I fix it more with choline than the, the methylfolate.

I, I still take methylfolate, I just don't take, like, the high doses.