I know B12 is water soluble so you will just pee out anything you don't absorb, but if you took someone that was on a lower maintenance dose of B12 and fully saturated them via regular injection... Would that person's need for folate or utilization of folate actually go up or down?
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Does taking more B12 make you need more folate?
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drmullin30
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Hi Blue, my experience has been that increases in B12 dosage need to be matched with an increase in folate otherwise I get folate deficiency symptoms.
I am finding that as well I just wasn't sure if B12 absorption peaked and then folate could be backfilled from there