Folic acid should be avoided in supplements and food due to poor conversion and potential issues with unmetabolized folic acid.

“many women or men listening to this might think wow that's a that's a panoply of nutrients where do i get all those you could use a synthetic multivitamin which i'm not a fan of for many reasons the forms of the these vitamins and minerals specifically the b vitamins found in multivitamins are often not the bioavailable forms but they're a little different folic acid actually doesn't occur in nature and it's a form of folate that's not the same as as methylfolate or other types of folate that are used by the body”

“folic acid does not occur in nature it's synthetic form of folate it doesn't occur anywhere so there's no requirement for folic acid in the human body but all the supplements contain folic acid probably because it's the most stable form but in the human body there's you know l5 methyl folate there's 510 methyl or hydrofolate there's tetrahydrofolate there's all sorts of forms of folate that are actually biologically identical and if those occur in your prenatal then you have a prenatal that's better than one with folic acid but there's this potential that a prenatal containing folic acid might even do negative things and some people i don't know if we have enough research to say that with full confidence but i would never take folic acid”

“the synthetic form of folate it doesn't occur anywhere so there's no requirement for folic acid in the human body but all the supplements contain folic acid probably because it's the most stable form but in the human body there's you know l5 methyl folate there's 5 10 methyl tetrahydrofolate there's tetrahydrofolate there's all sorts of forms of folate that are actually biologically identical and if those occur in your prenatal then you have a prenatal that's better than one with folic acid but there's this potential that a prenatal containing folic acid might even do negative things in some people”

“if they're taking any supplement that contains folic acid i tell them to get off it immediately”

“folic acid does not occur in nature it's synthetic form of folate it doesn't occur anywhere so there's no requirement for folic acid in the human body”

“I would never supplement a human with folic acid that's not something that occurs in the human body”

“folic acid is something you should root out of your life do not take supplements or any sort of compound vitamins Etc that have folic acid there's good research to suggest that your body can't convert folic acid into the usable form dihydrofolate or tetrahydrofolate very well unmetabolized folic acid floating around in your body or your family's bodies is potentially problematic for humans”

“Make sure, make sure, make sure if you are going to have kids, if you are taking a prenatal vitamin that it does not contain folic acid.”

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