http://forums.phoenixrising.me/inde...ion-needing-some-direction.28302/#post-432943
You might want to read up on “Paradoxical Folate Insufficiency”, too. Search it in the forum. I’m new here but have been reading A LOT, and it sounds like you were exhibiting symptoms of that. It’s Freddd’s theory and seems to hold true for many people (but not all).
Briefly, the theory is that in order to get well there are multiple levels of healing we must go through to reach wellness. Your first doses of folate start you on that healing. But if the dose is too low to affect *all* the necessary levels of healing, eventually the folate gets spread to thin and can’t keep the healing going. So you need progressively larger doses for a while, until you feel normal again. The progressively larger doses keep the healing going.
It’s like cars using gasoline (with the cars being the levels of healing and gas being the folate). One car can get pretty far on one gallon of gas...in the same way that if you only need to heal a little bit, a single 800mcg tab of folate will do you pretty well.
But if you have four cars and need to split that gallon of gas four ways...none of those cars are going to go very far. You need more gas (folate) or you just won’t go.
Adding more folate can keep the healing going so the healing keeps going.
Low potassium is also a sign of the paradoxical folate insufficiency. My understanding is that when sludgy cells that haven’t been using potassium in a while get kick-started by the folate/methylation supps, they suddenly start intaking potassium again, sucking all available potassium from your bloodstream (or wherever it comes from, like I said I’m new so still sorting it all out, LOL). So you need to add more potassium so your awakened cells can keep on using it, or eventually your cells will run out, making you feel crappy and causing other symptoms. It’s basically like a sponge needing more water to become saturated.
I’m no expert, just, like I said, a noob with a lot of what she’s read still fresh in her mind. And trying to explain what I’ve read to other people helps me sort things out in my own head.
Paradoxical insufficiency is when you’re taking a form of folic acid or folinic acid that your body can’t use, it blocks whatever methylfolate you’re intaking that your body *can* use, and thus causes deficiency. It’s a paradox because it seems like you’re getting the nutrients your body needs by the amount you’re taking. But you’re having weird and disturbing symptoms of poor health.
Freddd says donut hole only occurs with insufficient methylfolate. Some levels of healing/symptoms are slipping through the hole, I guess.
Read this thread, it gave me a better understanding of things
http://forums.phoenixrising.me/inde...rong-reaction-from-taking-methylfolate.21896/