Folic acid handling by the human gut: implications for food fortification and supplementation.

Don't know if this was ever posted, if you read the complete study you will see we are
not rats, and some past assumptions are dead wrong.
So what might happen with loads of free folic acid floating around in the blood stream.
Will leave that for interested researchers to determine.
Of course there was a high incidence of UC,prior to mandatory folic acid fortification in 1998,
so perhaps another dead end, or not. Also went on SCD years ago, had no wheat or other
fortified foods, not even beer, did nothing for me, except to loose weight. On the other
hand, SCD helps some people.
If I had to guess, seems the incidence of IBD may have increased since 1998.

One pathway you might want to look into is natural killer cells, unmetabolized folic acid, then
proceed onto NK cells and colitis.
Old Mike

/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24944062

Post Edited (Old Mike) : 10/30/2017 2:10:07 AM (GMT-6)

Doesn't a simple serum folic acid levels test show high levels of unmetabolized folic acid?

I remember London, both of us did not do well on methyl folate and or methyl B12.
But this study is a bit different, we also may have a lot of free folic acid floating around
in the blood stream, of course depending on what we eat.
Old Mike