What You Need To Know About Folic Acid

Folic acid is something that we all need to know about. Many countries have mandatory “fortification” programs and most of us ingest it without too much thought. It has been presented by the World Health Organisation and their associates as a “win-win” for the public due to the purported prevention of neural tube defects such as spina bifida.
This video investigates some of the pivotal papers that were used as the evidence for folic acid supplementation for pregnant women and then entire populations. We examine what the real world data shows and why some of the numbers do not stack up.
Additionally, the folic acid they are putting in these products is not the same as the folate that has been depleted from our food in the first place. What are the implications of constant exposure to synthetic compounds and what can you do to remedy the situation today?
Hopefully you enjoy this video as well as all the other free resources encouraging healthy living at drsambailey.com. The book Terrain Therapy also outlines how to achieve your best health through right thinking and right living. It includes an outline of how our diets have been corrupted and what you can do to put everything back on track.
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[@tomjones2348]

Bravo!! Dr. Bailey. Superb presentation. This "switcheroo" with folate and folic acid reminds me of what was done in 1967 when all commercially baked good required iodine. Bing.... they changed it out, for bromine....which happens to be attracted to the iodine receptors...blocking absorption of iodine. Oh, those health officials.....gotta keep a close eye on them at all times!

[@earlgrey691]

Good post .

[@anniepurse2831]

My daughter suffers terrible migraines when she accidentally eats fortified/enriched foods. I mail her organic unfortified flour from a farm here in Canada. She lives in Mexico. Even unbleached organic flour is fortified here as well. It is all criminal. They do not want us well but sick. The elite want a 30% reduction in world wide population and poisoning us is how they will achieve it. Thanks for this video. Praying people of child bearing age see this and also those with health issues.

[@CharlesGahl]

Bingo. Ah, but who are the ruling elite? How about all those 200 or so kings and queens that magically disappeared from their respective countries between 1912 and 1945 just before the United Nations was formed and strangely the UN had the same goal of reducing the world's population. Remember Covid? Uh huh.

[@lowryder5687]

Thank you doctor. Still the best smile on the internet.

[@tobyfitzpatrick3914]

What about Jacinda..?

[@elizagoodytwoshoes9140]

@@tobyfitzpatrick3914 he's not a doctor🙈

[@realcooking1833]

​@@tobyfitzpatrick3914she could eat an apple through a tennis racquet 🤣

[@MegaDirtyberty]

@@tobyfitzpatrick3914 Bahahahahahahaha

[@dennisharrington3874]

Your videos help restore my faith in humanity. Thank you.

[@russellbrooks23able]

In specific humanity only. Trust but verify. Take nothing at face value or supposedly backed by scientific studies (most are not worth the paper they are printed on).

[@optimumperformance]

Important to note the commonality of the mthfr gene mutations and the dangers of consuming folic acid.

[@sarahhalse5167]

The day NZ announced they where adding this to our bread is the day I stopped buying any bread or baked goods. Been baking all my own since. Now I need to make sure I source good, organic, unbleached flour!!

[@topotone]

Thanks Dr S…to sum up, you’re saying virtually all folic acid supplements are synthetic and to avoid those. Are there any at all that are sourced from actual food? Sounds like, if so, there’s probably a lot of processing that goes into making it. Ultimately, you’re right on. Ignorance in farming has wreaked havoc on soils and ruined their ecosystem. Add to that the poison dumped on crops and it’s obvious where a species is headed with that mindset. But there’s hope. More and more organic farming is happening and awareness is growing. We may see a change in our lifetime 🙏

[@itzakpoelzig330]

It's not ignorance. It's carefully orchestrated misinformation campaigns. People fall for it because they trust entities they shouldn't trust.

[@ZalMoxis]

Nice on Doc.... these authority bodies should be ashamed of themselves for all this poisoning and the obfuscating of findings and truths....

[@littlered7820]

Psychopaths don't posses the ability of shame.

[@dorothypuntarich784]

Dr.Natasha Campbell Mcbride has written several books, Weston A.Price & Sally Fallon ❤

[@lill7494]

HI Dr Sam, I'm in NZ too. I'm a label reader and have just noticed on one of our supermarket branded flours have added folic acid in the ingredient list. Thanks for the info and the links.

[@elizagoodytwoshoes9140]

It became mandatory a year ago in NZ, the only brand is Edmonds and organic flours. Which means all bought products made with flour has folic acid. All bread on the shelf has this product. Its also in some supplements.

[@myworld8266]

My daughter works within council care - she told me due to a certain birth defect, they are now looking very closely at Folic acid as the cause - in the UK folic acid is added to bread and flour.

[@rosehippyguy3402]

I've just bought a bread maker, after I realised that huge list of ingredients on the packaging. I use 4 ingredients, all are organic. I've never been so conscious of what I put in my body.

[@elizagoodytwoshoes9140]

Its added in flour in NZ, which means everything made with flour has folic acid, which means there is no regulation in how much is consumed by the public, how does that make any sense🙈 same for fluoride 😡

[@kathrynemason1673]

One of the reasons I don't consume any grains, though I'm sure some of the meat I eat has been adulterated anyway through animal feed 🤦‍♀️

[@optimumperformance]

Thank you for doing this very important video.

[@BenjaminSpencer]

In Australia the law is just around wheat flour for bread production needing to have folic acid, so gluten free bread doesn't legally require it to be added. I make my own bread at home and on rare occasion of getting a burger at a restaurant I go for gluten free bread. I suspect a lot of gluten intolerant people may just be intolerant to the folic acid

[@elizagoodytwoshoes9140]

I think it goes deeper than that, they have found where glysophate is used more commercially in food production ie. Spraying wheat to hurry its process has led to widespread coeliac dis-ease.

[@urtyp6596]

Better yet go Carnivorediet! Cheers from Germany

[@itzakpoelzig330]

Meat heals.

[@naturewoman1274]

I buy organic wheat berries and i ground my own with a grain mill, it's absolutely beautiful 😊

[@Gilbert0Jimenez]

Thank you so much Dr. Sam for your great work!❤

[@petewood2350]

I remember Spina bifida was heavily associated to Chemical Sprays, like IWD's 245t and 24d, the two mixed made agent orange,

[@itzakpoelzig330]

👍💯

[@simulationsecrets6540]

Great video, thank you! Just started down the vitamin / supplement rabbit hole and have stopped taking them at least for the time being. Seems like the same folks and processes are at play, figures…

[@PP-ob8zr]

Thank you again Sam 😊👍 Excellent video.

[@mypointofview1111]

When I was pregnant with my son I made sure I had a good intake of vitamins and minerals, one of these was folic acid. My son had a small hole on his coccyx which ny mother-in-law informed me was hereditary on her side of the family as her eldest son also had this. She put it down to having a good intake of folic acid.

[@karent4860]

Thankyou so much for making this video. ❤

[@lancemcmurchy1161]

As a flour Miller, this is some what accurate. But 99% of flour does not have bleach in it, in nz anyway. Most vitamins are removed by oxygen due to the milling process, so getting local milling and not eating it straight away is thus a waste of time. Minerals in the whole grain are in the bran, which the stomach struggles to digest much of it, so I'm not sure what the benefit of this would be except for the fibre value.

[@josephpchajek2685]

Her point was mainly that to consume folate you need to consume foods rich in Folate, not flour, not enriched flour.

[@justandy7963]

I understand that Folic acid should really be Folinic acid and Niacin should really be Nicotinic acid. So they are adding the wrong thing. They use niacinamide which is not Nicotinic acid. So whatever they are adding is possibly antagonistic to Folinic acid and Nicotinic acid.

[@miguelz8721]

God Bless you Doctor

[@onthebuses]

Scotland Sharing 🥃📡🥃

[@TheCatholicHomemaker]

Would you answer about a good prenatal or if it is necessary with a good diet? Do we have to make sure we get 400-600+ mcg of folate while being pregnant, or is that not necessary and are other factors involved that create neural tube defects like you showed in the video? I have found a prenatal called birthright, which is animal based with liver and other foods, but my concern is not getting enough folate in my diet. They do not measure nutrient amounts. It is difficult to get enough folate from diet alone unless you are being very specific every day. I guess I am just wondering if that target number of a minimum of 400-600 mcg per day is inaccurate because it is assuming the previous studies on folic acid are true?

[@justandy7963]

REAL folate comes from folinic acid. Unfortunately, folinic acid has recently been made a prescription only medicine instead of an over the counter supplement. Luckily, I still have a jar of folinic acid capsules. Folinic acid helps detoxification.

[@elizagoodytwoshoes9140]

Leafy green veges, broccoli etc are the real sources of folate.

[@itzakpoelzig330]

Folinic acid is naturally found in eggs, liver, and seafood.

[@savedfaves]

In US research organic pasture raised eggs were found to have up to 21 times the folic acid of factory farmed eggs (Polyface farm). That’s an estimate of 25 micrograms vs 525 micrograms. For two eggs, 50 micrograms vs 1,050. Less assume that’s best case scenario, and instead estimate the comparator at 10 times. For two eggs then that would be 50 micrograms vs 500 micrograms. That’s moving the chickens daily using a chicken tractor-a chicken tractor is a chicken cage someone pulls along the ground over a new section of pasture everyday that was grazed by ruminants some days prior. “You are what you eat” is an exaggeration, but that does seem like a stark contrast. You’d need twenty factory farmed eggs to have the same folic acid as two of these other eggs. Ask your local Mennonite, Amish or regenerative farmer if they have pasture raised chicken eggs. Note: the name chicken tractor is somewhat misleading as they typically do not involve what you would consider to be a tractor. It’s just a cage, and they sometimes have a couple of wheels.

[@kimpreece4526]

Surely you mean 21 times more folate as folic acid is created in a laboratory. Love Polyface farm and Joe Salatin btw.

[@dsc4178]

My oldest son is classed as "autistic" and he has many problems; one possible cause is that my wife took 10x the folic acid she needed for a wekk due to a doctor's error.

[@Arginne]

Autism is literally genetic. When a child is autistic someone in the close family surely is as well. It’s as genetic as height. 50 percent and is highly heretiable. Maybe start accepting who your child is instead of treating him like damaged or diseased. I feel bad for him he has a parent like you who won’t accept him.

[@Eulaalia10]

Children that are not v a c c i n a t e d do not get autism. They usually are the healthiest of them all.

[@HobbyHalloween]

I going to guess that we probably shouldn't eat wheat in the first place. But if you do, then this sounds like a good idea.

[@PeachesCourage]

I took in 1972 folic acid due a blood test I didn't take it all in fact I only took a very few I never liked taking supplements really and didn't believe much in them really My Son however was from a father who was an alcoholic He was so lucky because one of my nieces had alcohol syndrome because one of my sisters was drinking at that time Folic acid anyway isn't good for your heart is it? I think I've read that someplace? Thank you for this so great to hear the reality *

[@philanka]

Hi Dr. Sam, I'm Sheryl from NZ. Thank you for your video. We're planning to have another child, God willing. I'm currently taking folic acid as I'm worried I'm not getting enough folate on my diet. Could you please recommend any prenatal supplements? God bless your work abundantly.

[@itzakpoelzig330]

Eggs provide natural folate and many other vitamins and nutrients necessary for a healthy pregnancy. Four should cover a whole days folate requirement, even if you ate nothing else. If four is too many for you, scramble two or three eggs with one or two additional yolks, since the yolk is where the folate is. Liver is another food rich in folate, and various seafoods are another great source.

[@markstreckfuss3978]

Hi Dr Sam, what do you recommend to women who have had babies with NTDs. Folic acid supplementation (higher dose of 5mg) is the only recommendation as a preventative to future affected pregnancies to women in Australia. I was told it is classed as a “multi factorial disorder but the folic acid supplementation is the only thing that makes any difference “… I would also question whether the statistics using “per live births” are accurate given the aggressive pressure to abort babies affected by NTDs since the advent of pregnancy ultrasound screening. Teresa

[@andy1way]

When I started watching Doctor Sam I had E.D. now I have P.E. 😂

[@benjigirl1971]

What are you talking about.

[@dk4366]

Folic acid is even worse for those of us with MTHFR gene mutations. Horrible stuff

[@charleswalters5284]

How come?

[@itzakpoelzig330]

Can't be used by the body, so it just accumulates and becomes a toxin.

[@Sergedb74]

Ok, correlation is not causation but someone I know started taking folate. I did not know she was taking it but I noticed something was not right. During the same time, I had just found out that folic acid could be bad for you. Someone says that folate is not the same as folic acid but how can we be so sure about that? Are we sure it is folate in the container? Either way, she was happier than usual - one might say that this is great. The problem is that folic acid acts as an antidepressant similar to fluoride. However, her cognitive functions were declining, she did not notice that. At times she acted as if 20 years older or more. I asked her to stop taking it - it was the new fag for methylation, you know? - and slowly but surely her condition improved. Perhaps it was just a coincidence or something else but that was the only new supplement added to the mix. Maybe folate at very small doses is beneficial, I do not know, but ask someone to keep an eye on you if you decide to supplement it with it. Feel free to do your own research, this is just my opinion.

[@willb249]

Not to mention the fact that 44% of the population had a variation of the MTHFR gene, meaning they cannot methylate folate like other people. Folic acid is really bad for them. Please do a video on this

[@TheRKae]

Damn, I'm so sick of industry executives promising us that their products are healthy. Well, you'd HAVE to say that, wouldn't you, Mr. Corporate Executive? And if you found that your product wasn't safe, you'd bury that info and keep selling it. Their corporate line is always a lie.

[@ndudman8]

Just another reason to grow your own... and eat less :) Probably the B12 on that label wasn't any good for your either :) like the wrong form of k2 instead of the green grass form which i think is k2-mk4 and not the synthetic plant one mk8 ?

[@MrHVACguy71]

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[@Robholyoake3778]

All Defects are Nutrients deficiency

[@josephpchajek2685]

No

[@patrickcreath217]

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[@handendaer]

Someone sadly started...

[@user-qm7nw7vd5s]

Excellent info. I assume that folic acid, like ascorbic acid is made in China. That’s enough reason alone to stay away from it. I used to think ascorbic acid was the equivalent of vitamin C. But that’s another misleading statement put out there as well.

[@NorthStar20]

Looking to buy organic, unadulterated flour in Auckland. Does any one have any suppliers/retailers to recommend please?

[@xcell8638]

Not for Auckland but you can buy organic flour online from NZ suppliers. That's what I do.

[@NorthStar20]

@@xcell8638 thanks postage is a killer then :( for us anyway

[@scaryfakevirus]

Why should I (a man) have to take medication for some woman who can't be bothered to take it herself?

[@charleswalters5284]

To fix a quite obvious brain malfunction.

[@itzakpoelzig330]

First of all, folate is not a medication, it's a vitamin. To qualify as a vitamin, a substance must be absolutely necessary for the functioning of the human body, and not created within the human body. All humans need folate. Folic acid, the synthetic form of folate, is as dangerous (or more) to pregnant women as it is to you. No one should be taking it. But secondly, you're absolutely right that it makes no sense to put a medication of any sort into the food or water supply, because no medication is safe for every single human. Also true for all synthetic forms of all vitamins. They are hot trash and usually do the opposite of what the natural form of the vitamin does.

[@charleswalters5284]

@@scaryfakevirus you sure that's what you are? You don't sound like much of one

[@jondevlin4187]

My only addiction is you a human are not designed to eat carbs any. So no wheat rice fruits and especially not vegetables. We are obligate carnivores. We only moved to carbs circa 12000 years ago and the state of our heath that followed is only too evident.

[@charleswalters5284]

How come all the other apes eat mostly fruit?

[@denofpigs2575]

I don't know, what about the shrimp that eat mostly bacteria, molds, and yeasts? Not sure about you but I'm not an ape so why would that apply to me?​ @@charleswalters5284

[@daddyjmb]

Eat beef liver capsules, skip the grains.

[@woodlakesound]

Sounds disgusting

[@BillyRubinIII]

Too much retinol

[@daddyjmb]

@@woodlakesound They are gelatin capsules, no taste

[@daddyjmb]

@@BillyRubinIII Rarely you could say this happens, vit a is liberated by light in the retina. Copper is part of that story as Well.

[@denofpigs2575]

​@@woodlakesoundI ate 180 capsules, six a day. Not much, if any, flavor except when you belch after. If not powdered, freeze dried liver, just go straight to the source and eat liver. Preferably fried in good quality butter and onions.

[@Albusolar]

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