Ep 98 Folate: Marmite, anyone?
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The Mechanisms of Polate and Why It's So Important
Folate is absorbed in the same part of our intestine as iron, and i think also vitaman c i could be wrong about that. Anyways, once it makes its way through our gut wall, it travels mostly to the liver and has to be metabilized in order to serve its many functions. So whatever form of polate we injest has to be converted into tetra hydropholate, also called t h f. And this is the predominantly useful form of folate,. ok, this is where i have to like, pause for a second and tell you that if we were to go into the really knitty, gritty details of the metabolism of folate, it
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