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FolaPro features Metafolin®, the active, preferred form of folate called L-5-methyl tetrahydrofolate (L-5-MTHF).
Provides L-5-MTHF, a metabolically active form of folate, helping to...
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Go Blue wrote:
FolaPro instead of Folinic Acid?
Has anyone whose child could not tolerate folinic acid found that their child could tolerate folapro?
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mrs_shoe wrote...
I was just going to ask how this product compares to Kirkman’s Folinic Acid…as I see this product looks like it might be in the tetrahydorfolate form. Doesn’t that mean this is already in the form of folinic acid? Anyone who knows, please chime in. Thanks!
Adam Israel (Our Kids) wrote...
The following is paraphrased from the book, Autism: Effective Biomedical Treatments.
FolaPro is L-5-methyl tetrahydrofolate, while folinic acid is 5-formyltetrahydrofolate. Folinic Acid is the most versatile form of folate because it can already be converted into almost every other form of folate. FolaPro is an end-use form of folate, which can not be converted into any other form of folate. For FolaPro to work, cobalamin, glutathione, methionine synthase, and methionine synthase reductase must be propererly functioning together. If not, neither FolaPro nor FOLIC acid is likely to be beneficial. A better choice in this case would be folinic acid.