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The Vitamin You Can’t Use, and It’s in Almost Everything You Eat

Your body can only process about 200 mcg of it a day. Most people get three to four times that.

Aug 05, 2026
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I’ve been saying this for years: folic acid and folate are not the same thing. Look at your multivitamin and any bread, rice, or cereal products in your pantry. Do any of them say “folic acid” on the label?

Right now there's a decent chance unmetabolized folic acid is sitting in your bloodstream, whether you take a supplement or not. Most people find out the hard way, if they find out at all.

In the full version you’ll get:

  • Why folic acid isn’t doing what you think it’s doing

  • What to take instead

  • Who’s genetically set up to process it even worse, and how to tell if that’s you

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