folic acid is actually really bad. Eliminating folic acid from my life was transformative. I actually

got my brain back. I felt better. My energy was better. My mood was more stable, much is worse than

green tea. There's a compound called EGCG. It literally destroys folate. The research shows that 30

minutes to an hour, that compound is still circulating in your blood. during pregnancy not a good time to be taking

something that's antifolate. Methylated vitamins can make some people anxious because you're getting

a plethora of neurotransmitters in your brain more than your brain can handle. In addition,

you are inhibiting an enzyme that controls the elimination of methyl groups called GNMT. And GNMT

controls how much methyl donors are in the body, and methylphylphylate actively

blocks it.

So you are now having a huge amount of methylation groups in your body too much.

Dr. Ben Lynch, I'm so excited to have you back on the podcast.

I told you this before we started recording, but I posted in my

DMs probably about a month or so ago, because we've had to reschedule a couple times that you

were coming on the podcast, and I got flooded with messages from people. People love you, and

we're so grateful for the information that you put out there for us. So thank you so much for coming on

today. Yeah, awesome. Glad we can get this going.

Yeah, me too. So you know that I'm pregnant and I had actually reached out to you very early on in my pregnancy because I had come across some information that was new to me. So just to give

my listeners context, I found out about, I think it's been about eight years now that I I have MTHFR, and I have the 677T. Do you call that variation? Variant, yep. Variant? Okay. And I, for the last seven and a half years, have been told by every doctor and practitioner that I've seen, which have all been, you know, functional integrative doctors, by the way, that I needed to be taking methylated vitamins. And then I came across some information, which I believe was from you, actually. I don't remember where I first saw it, but then I know I saw that you were talking about it. And so I reached out to you, was that if, if you have certain variants of MTHFR, methylated vitamins can actually make you more anxious.

And this was exactly what was happening to me. In fact, this information completely changed my life.

I immediately went from taking the prenatal that I was on before and I started ordering your

prenatal, the optimal prenatal MF, which doesn't have the methylated vitamins. And the difference that I saw in my

overall baseline of anxiety was profound, honestly, in my experience. Because I'd always had this

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