I've been looking at the amount of folate and B12 in foods and it seems there's actually a decent amount of folate in foods (both folinic acid and methylfolate).
Yes,but some people do not convert to the active form,which is methylfolate. It is said that consuming active+ inactive forms might in fact block the absorption of the active form.
However, the B12 amount in foods is extremely low. Even if there was an equal amount of B12 and folate my understanding is that the absorption rate of B12 taken orally is very low. Why do people need to take B12 sublinguals? Is this only for people with chronic illness and most people don't need B12?
Why do people need to take B12 sublinguals? It is because the absorption rate of B12 taken orally is very low!!
Most people might have B12 in their bodies,and might not be deficient. Many are,though. Establishing a deficiency with the references of the medical world is very well a chaos and with a 200-900 pg/ml test range, many might not be deficient. But they do show signs and Fred says one 5 star sublingual can very well determine if a person has deficiency or not, by analyzing the startup effects from the sublingual. He has written much on folate and vegetable folate. Look for past discussions and threads on folate by Rich and Fred, you'll find a lot of answers and hypothesis.
People who are chronically ill because of B12 will need the sublinguals!
