Posted by jane d on February 1, 2002, at 11:56:06
In reply to Prozac and Folic Acid, posted by IsoM on February 1, 2002, at 6:14:52
This is interesting. I had heard that even larger doses of folic acid (5+mg, 10x that in the study) might help depression but I haven't found any documentation of that. I wonder if they would get the same results running this experiment on a US population. They might not because the US has mandatory food supplementaion with folic acid and the UK, where the study was run, does not. That might mean that US residents are already getting as much folic acid as the subjects in the study (or of course it might not). So I'd really like to know whether the positive effect gets greater with higher doses of folate.
I found this on the UK's current supplementing debate while I was looking for information on higher doses. http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/323/7323/1198 This is an BMJ editorial from which you can get to all the rest of their material (free by the way).
What does Canada currently do about supplementing?
Jane
poster:jane d
thread:92491
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/20020131/msgs/92507.html