Posted by Racer on January 29, 2008, at 10:43:03
In reply to Why I would not consider taking Deplin, posted by Abby Cunningham on January 29, 2008, at 9:51:24
> # One Deplin® 7.5mg tablet is bioequivalent to taking fifty-three 1,000 mcg folic acid tablets every day. Yikes! If this is correct I would be inviting colon cancer.
Not necessarily. Folic acid and methylfolate are different substances, even though they are related. I haven't read the study you linked to, so I don't know what was said about mechanism, but Deplin and folic acid supplements are not the same.
I don't blame you for being conservative about it, though. I just wanted to point out that they're not the same thing, so the same results may not apply.
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