Trying to separate three different claims about folate: that it is the right molecule, that it is the right dose, and that it does something useful.
An inconclusive account is useful if it stops the next person mistaking a story for a controlled comparison. Not on folate but the pattern is familiar.
Sleep, food, or the compound? Yes.
Underdosing and tolerance are indistinguishable from the inside, and everyone picks the flattering explanation.
A certificate of analysis answers one question and gets quoted as though it answers four.
Baseline first. How long have you been on folate?
Read methods. Currently on folate myself.
Nobody has ever been talked out of a stack by a stranger on the internet.
Sterility is the part people wave through and it is the part that actually bites.
Read methods.
Loose evidence and no evidence are different, and people overcorrect in both directions.
Narrow conclusion.
Sleep, food, or the compound? Yes.