#444: Folate – Intake, Genetics & Health Outcomes
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The Concept of One Carbon Metabolism
Allan, what is the kind of initial introduction that we could give around one carbon metabolism, the methyllation cycle, and then specifically fole in its roll within the so you mentioned one carbon metabolism. So this is ically metabolism of groups in the body, compounds in the body that have a single carbon. There's a single carbon atom with other chemical elements that will make up a particular compound or group,. One of which is known as a methal group. The addition of that one carbon methal group to another a molecule can either then inhibit or initiate reactions that occur. But there is evidence, for example, that the magnitude of homasistine lowering will be more dependent on
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