arx, I took the exact same Country Life and it gives me vaguely some energy, I hardly feel any effect.
Since you already take a fair amount of mb12, I doubt it would be the adb12 giving you these feelings of overexcitation.
I am no expert here. But I can give you what comes to mind :
- you may have changed something else in your diet/something happened in your life;
- it could be the folic acid = folic acid is
pteroyl-L-glutamate.
My theory is that we suffer from what I called Fake Folate Poisoning. That after the introduction of fake folates in the diet (this happened 150 years ago on a large scale), humans have adapted by genetic modifications, some of which make us react to folates in bizarre ways, and some of them result in Riboflavin deficiency which has serious effects on the nervous system.
- As to what this genetic-induced Riboflavin deficiency brings : see what I wrote here :
http://forums.phoenixrising.me/index.php?threads/b2-i-love-you.15209/page-28#post-288216
- as to fakes folates, do not believe for one second that being in India you have escaped the food revolution. There was Marmite, and all yeast extracts, especially for the well to do children. Malted flour and biscuits. Both absolutely full of fake folates. Now there is MSG (
monosodium glutamate) in every curry which is not home-made AND home-made curries too, since fake folates are highly addictive, they never taste as good anymore once you have tasted the fake folate somewhere. You will notice the MSG being sold in
bags in the markets. For home use.
Instead of cooking with ghee the whole of India is now encouraged to cook with vanaspati, which is
hydrogenated fat = dangerous fake folate.
All this is very bad for you in many ways, but subtle and no easily noticed at first. The end result used to be cancer in your seventies for lack of vitamin K (fake folates being anti-K). Now we have evolved and we see these nervous problems (cancer would be for later if we ever reached that stage). Autistic children are the last in the line.
It is a silent problem, until one day the straw breaks the camel's backs. This is very difficult to cure.
A solution for you right now : if Freddd is right and I understood properly what he wrote, you may overwhelm this fake folate problem (brought about by taking a glutamate) with a folate which is easier to assimilate, that is metafolin.
He may well be right. But that does not stop the poisoning at its source. In my experience it is not possible (yet!!! I still have hope!)
- to modify your genes so that you do not belong to the at risk population who has genes that cannot process folic acid and most probably other folates properly, thus pushing you into "folate poisoning";
- to feel well and keep your body happy if you go on taking fake folates. Big problem. Metafolin may not be the answer to all the damage, as far as I know.
"
Fake
Folates" .... think "
Favourite
Foods"
Lots of good wishes,
Be well,
Asklipia
FFP 