I know folic acid and methylfolate aren't the same I just thought you'd told me not to take folic acid because it doesn't convert properly but I was saying if I'm already taking the active form then I wouldn't need to worry about the conversion issues do I?
No, just don't call 'methylfolate' 'folic acid'. It isn't.
I'm guessing both forms will still treat a folate deficiency?
If you're one of those who cannot convert inactive folic acid into biologically active methylfolate, and you're still taking, or start taking folic acid - because you didn't read the ingredients-label of a new supplement carefully enough - than you could even worsen folate deficiency. As already explained, inactive folic acid could block folate receptors and hinder real active methylfolate doing its thing in the body.
You're telling me not to take any form of folic acid / methyl folate but if I'm deficient then how can this be treated if I stopped taking my folate pro. (active already converted form).
Why you now again mingling folic acid and methylfolate together as if they were the same? They are not! Nowhere I said real methylfolate could not treat folate deficiency.
If I take this niacinamide or the other form you was talking about earlier (as I brought some seen as that's what you suggested), what am I supposed to notice from it? Do I take it in combination with a low dose active form of folate (folate pro).
Normally one doesn't 'feel' anything from taking B vitamins. You said you felt agitated on methylfolate. I said nicotinic acid could be an antidote. Nicotinic acid is actually the only B vitamin which can be felt as flush by everyone at high enough doses (which is individual, start very low, about 50 mgs, and increase gradually, because some ended in the ER by wrongly thinking they would die from the flush). If nicotinic acid works as an antidote to the agitation you experience from methylfolate, then you should take it as antitode once you feel the agitation from methylfolate. And should notice no more agitation.
However you should at least take B12 if you take methylfolate daily. Read here: https://en.wikipedia...t_of_folic_acid
Edited by pamojja, 28 July 2017 - 08:08 PM.