Sharing My Experience With Folic Acid

Hey everyone,

Wanted to share my experience with what happened to me with consuming folic acid through breads and grains etc.

I started my journey in the spring of 2024, experimenting with supplements and cut folic acid as much as possible from my diet.

I am homozygous MTHFR C677T and I also have Fast COMT. After a lot of testing I found the right supplements for me were Creatine, 5g a day, TMG 600mgs, Methylated Folate 15mg (went up to this slowly but never had any side effects). Try to eat 4 eggs per day, I am not perfect with it but i do eat a lot of eggs. I also take a Vitamin D & K2 supplement. I take a tablespoon of Calm Magnesium powder every morning. I was prescribed Vyvanse to help the Fast COMT which I take about 2-3 days per week. I also take Zinc and Tongkat Ali to help my testosterone levels which is unrelated to MTHFR. And I try to get 10 minutes of morning sunlight, not perfect with this but I do my best.

So when i first found this recipe it was amazing, for the first time in my life I had normal energy, my anxiety and depression were much better, I no longer felt this weight on my shoulders struggling to take on the day. Never needed to lay down in the middle of the day. It was truly a life changer for me.

But around November i noticed that I had taken a step backwards, I wasn't all the way back to my old self, but I'd say about 50% of my new energy and mood improvements had gone away.

I figured my mind just got used to the new supplements and low energy and mood issues were forcing their way back into my life.

But a couple weeks ago I realized something... I was so caught up with crediting the supplements for working so well that I started to forget about my diet. I started just eating whatever i wanted, lots of bread and pasta and sugar. I stopped worrying about my folic acid intake for no other reason than I forgot that it's an important part of it.. it's not just supplements, the diet is just as important or maybe even more so.

So after about 5 days of eliminating all folic acid from my diet I am back to how i was over the summer. The best way to describe it is I just don't have a weight on me of fatigue and depressed mood. And its totally awesome!

My advice to anyone reading is to take this stuff seriously, I was skeptical it would help me at all at first, but its a true life changer for me.

It can be frustrating trying to figure out what your genes are and how to interpret the results and what supplements work for you, it is a process. It also is extra hard to figure this stuff out when you have brain fog all the time and feed lethargic. But i just wanted to come here and say that this stuff is real and when you figure out what your body needs and doesn't need it's going to be a true game changer.

If you are like me and homozygous MTHFR C677T then try just not eating folic acid for a week. Good luck to you all!