David Fitzpatrick

The government is adding folic acid to all UK flour by law this December. They call it a public health win. What they are not telling you is that folic acid is not folate. Folic acid is the synthetic oxidised form of vitamin B9. To become usable, the body has to convert it using an enzyme called DHFR into 5-methyltetrahydrofolate, the active form your cells can actually work with. A significant portion of the population carries variants of the MTHFR gene that impair this conversion. Enzyme activity can drop by up to 70 percent. Unmetabolised folic acid accumulates in the blood instead. I carry an MTHFR variant. Most people who do have no idea. They eat their fortified bread and assume they are getting folate. They are not. They are accumulating a synthetic compound their body cannot process efficiently. No screening. No individual consideration. No acknowledgement that the conversion pathway exists. Just mandatory fortification for every single person in the country. Real folate is found in food. Liver is the most concentrated source and it delivers folate already in the active 5-MTHF form. No conversion needed. No gene variant problem. They are adding a synthetic vitamin to a food that drives metabolic dysfunction and calling it progress. I don’t eat bread anymore but if you still eat bread, choose 100% wholemeal, rye, or ancient grain varieties like spelt or einkorn. These are exempt from the law. White and standard brown bread are not. Do you know if you carry an MTHFR variant?