Long post, sorry. Folate: what actually has human evidence behind it, and what is extrapolation from animals?
Most of the popular protocols are borrowed from clinical populations and applied to healthy people without comment.
The comparison group matters more than the compound when the outcome is something as fuzzy as focus.
I have started logging dose, time, and sleep because otherwise the anecdote is just a mood.
Sample size, blinding, and who paid for it. Those three questions kill most of the confidence in most of these threads.
Fortified food counts toward the total and is always forgotten.
Posting to be argued with, mainly.
Name the active ingredient, not just the brand. It makes these threads searchable years later.
Sterility is the part people wave through and it is the part that actually bites.
Same here.
Same here.
Is a baseline blood test really necessary before starting something like this?
Narrow conclusion.
Three questions kill most of the confidence in a thread like this: sample size, blinding, who paid.
Log dose, time and sleep. Ten seconds a day and it turns the anecdote into something you can look at. How long have you been on folate?
Baseline first.
Is a baseline blood test really necessary before starting something like this?
Read methods.
Read the methods section. It is the only part that says whether the conclusion is allowed to exist.
Baseline first.
How long before you can reasonably say something is or is not doing anything?