maybe I can comfort myself with thinking that the methylation process is producing new cells - that's what it uses the extra potassium for, right?
That's what I've read. I don't know how much evidence there is to back up that idea. It's obviously doing something, so let's hope for something good.
By the way, my potassium gluconate powder came today. How do people here tend to take it when they're out and about - dissolve it in a bottle of water?
That would probably work best. Make sure you let anyone with you know to stay away from your water bottle, especially children, otherwise they could get a potassium overdose. You might even want to add a label to the bottle warning others not to drink from it. Some people are very sensitive to potassium.
so fingers crossed that I've found a brand that continues to make a difference.
It's amazing how much difference in effectiveness there is between brands and individuals. Hopefully your sleep will continue to improve.
Maybe I was taking too much folate (800mcg total) for the low B12 dose I was on? I tried taking half that much one day, though, and felt terrible.
Maybe. It's hard to tell with the effect of a single day, especially while your body is undergoing such an adjustment. Cost was the only problem I had with high doses of folate. I've read some people say there is a certain ratio to maintain between B12 and folate, while others just go by what their body needs. I didn't follow a ratio.
I think your B12 dose is probably fine for now. I remember reading posts from Freddd where he recommended that people increase to a few mg of B12 and adB12 and then focus on increasing the folate and trying other recommended supplements.
Here in the UK they are horrendously dark; on top of our higher latitude, it can get cloudy literally for weeks at a time, to the point where you're driving with your headlights on at noon (as now).
Sounds like a Yukon winter in some ways. At the darkest periods the sun rises at around 9:30am and then starts to set at 3:30pm. We have a phrase here about "cabin fever" where some people start to feel quite oppressed in deep winter from the dark and being inside so often. In the summer we have periods where the sun only sets for a couple of hours. It's such a difference between the times of dark and light. Similar in some ways to the difference between bad health and good.