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I'm surprised they didn't just "partner" with General Mills or some such to turn this into an advertisement for folate fortification in sugary breakfast cereals
by Glyptodon 1y ago
I'm surprised they didn't just "partner" with General Mills or some such to turn this into an advertisement for folate fortification in sugary breakfast cereals.
For those replying: I did not mean this would seriously work, but that it would be par for this administration to basically bring cereal ads from Saturday morning cartoons into the CDC.
- incomingpain 1y agoThe typical folate in food or even the pregnant women folic acid supplement is good at preventing these birth defects; but for someone with NDD it would actually not help and depending on dose block up the pathways for it to heal.
- trehalose 1y agoLeucovorin works (at least for some cases of CFD) because it bypasses a folate transport protein that can be nonfunctional and fail to transport ordinary folic acid into the brain. I guess that doesn't necessarily mean they couldn't do what you're suggesting though.
- reenorap 1y agoThe dose in the pill is very high, it's not something you can just let everyone take.