Hi, there.
Eric Bakker at Naturopath.
Thanks for coming back, and looking at the video.
I've got an interesting one here from a person called Borific, Mr. Borific.
"Hi Dr. Becker.
I have a question.
I've been increasingly sick over the course of the past 10 years.
A lot of it seems to be GI related, though I'm not convinced that's the root of it all.
I've been tested for several things, and everything's been negative so far.
One thing is extremely high folate levels.
I'm not supplementing with any B vitamins.
My system can handle it, so that's not causing it.
What else causes super high folate levels?
I've very high uracil and normal thiamine levels according to the O test.
Nobody I've talked to has been able to answer this question.
Thank you so much."
Well, Mr. Borific, or Mrs. Borific, or, I mean this could be a 10 year old child for
all I know.
Who does these questions half the time but, whoever wrote this, you need to be very careful.
Why wasn't the stool test done before the O test?
In my opinion, that would have been a better test to do.
When you're starting to poke around and have a look at these pathways and defects, there
could be many, many, many reasons for it.
It could also be the test could be incorrect, or something could have been done that was
wrong giving you this kind of level.
So, don't be scared jumping on the bandwagon with crazy treatments because of one test
shows this kind of result, okay?
So, if you look at uracil, uracil is what we call a nuclear base.
So there are four nucleobases that make up, for example, RNA, and uracil is one of them.
I think the other one, adenine and guanine, they got weird names, I think it's A, C, G,
and U are the four bases and uracil is one of the four bases.
But in DNA, it's different, because the uracil is replaced by the thiamine.
You might have already researched on that.
So it gets a bit complicated.What you're looking at is a very small but important pathway,
and can be effected by a whole bunch of different things happening in the digestive system.
So my question to you is, what did the gut show?
If you did do a stool test, did you show any kind of disbiotic bacteria?
Or any issues?
I would tend to ignore the whole high folate levels if you're not supplementing them.
So if you're only just eating, getting folate through your diet, you're not gonna die of
the folate toxicity.
Because I doubt you're gonna take anymore than about 1,000 micrograms in per day.
You won't be drinking a gallon of spinach juice with each meal, so.
Folate is extremely important, nevertheless.
Because it helps to ensure red blood cells, and it's so important, in fact, that most
governments around the world, like in New Zealand and America, they started to make
this really, I think it came in the 1990s, '98, and '99, where all breads and cereal
grain were fortified with folic acid.
And why would this be?
Well, folate is such an important B vitamin.
It's extremely important for prevention of most chronic disease like cancer.
It forms the basis of cellular reproduction.
So folate is just one of those things where if you've low levels, you're basically going
to develop really shitty cells, develop crap cells, you're going to get cancer, you're
going to get sick.
So for proper build up of blood cells, and cells in the body in general to divide, and
for the proper health especially for any cell in the body, you need good levels of folic
acid.
So that's why they really like folates for pregnant women, because it causes the baby
growing rapidly, and the cells are dividing, needing good levels of folate to divide that.
Best levels of folate really are deep, leafy green vegetables.
I'm seeing on websites now, like Healthline and WebMD, and crap like that, they're actually
saying, "The best source is folate is bread now!"
Come on, get out of here.
Stupid idea.
I suppose the best form of sugar is Coca Cola now, isn't it?
Get out of here.
The best form of folate is fresh produce that comes out of an organically grown garden,
that's the best level of folate.
I may have mentioned this previous on a video, it's one of the world's biggest problems,
is folate deficiency.
This person's saying they've got too much folate in their body.
I would disregard that.
I can't really see serious side effects coming from folate levels, unless we're talking like,
ridiculous levels.
So what do you do in this case?
Well, Mr. or Mrs. Borific, I would recommend a comprehensive stool analysis, including
parasitology, performed properly.
Meaning, the proper withholding of probiotics and supplements the appropriate time beforehand,
the test done properly, and then let's see what's wrong with the digestive system.
You mentioned here, a lot of it seems GI related, then the gut needs fixing first.
It's a foundation.
O test in my opinion is not the correct test to do before the stool test.
You don't clean the glass and polish the windows on the car until you've washed all the crap
off the paint work first, come on.
You can't have your pudding unless you've had your meat.
You've gotta do one thing before the other, alright?
So get the stool done first, get the foundation of the gut in good shape, and then let the
body in its wisdom handle the correct healthy diet that you're consuming, and then improve
your metabolism, and then do your own tests in time to see if you can fine-tune that.
But to do an O test before a stool test, to me, it's just a dumb idea.
Alright?
Have to think about it.
Don't freak out about the folate.
I think it's perfectly fine.
Take care.