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amother
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 Fri, Aug 07 2020, 10:15 am
| amother [ OP ] wrote: | | sorry havnt been on this thread in a while. been busy with this whole ordeal. my son also has the MTHFR mutation! however he does not have low Folate! the labs say >3.0 is normal and he has >20.0. I'm curious did your some have low folate when they ran labs? or is he also at a normal level but for some reason needed more? | serum levels are not a great way to gauge what is actually going on. Levels way above the normal range can also be a clue that something is off, it may mean the folate is circulating in the blood but not actually getting into cells and doing what it needs to. With b vitamins especially, most people go based off of symptoms. They are water soluble, so the body will excrete the excess.
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amother
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Fri, Aug 07 2020, 6:38 pm
| amother [ Natural ] wrote: | | serum levels are not a great way to gauge what is actually going on. Levels way above the normal range can also be a clue that something is off, it may mean the folate is circulating in the blood but not actually getting into cells and doing what it needs to. With b vitamins especially, most people go based off of symptoms. They are water soluble, so the body will excrete the excess. |
if his body isnt using folate properly, what can be done about that?
btw, he started taking b6 and b12 recently
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amother
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Fri, Aug 07 2020, 6:59 pm
| amother [ OP ] wrote: | if his body isnt using folate properly, what can be done about that?
btw, he started taking b6 and b12 recently | it might be the wrong type of folate clogging his system, in other words, folic acid. If you are not supplementing, he would still be getting from enriched flours and cereals. What could help is removing sources of synthetic folic acid from his diet, and supplementing with a more bioavailable form like folate, folinic acid, 5mthf or methylfolate. Along with this you should use a b complex, as all the b vitamins work synergistically and need each her to work.
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