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"And I think that it's really interesting hearing you describe it as a drug, which of course it is, because actually the way it's sold to the public is as a nutrient, as something natural that's in food anyway, what could possibly be wrong with that? I think people would have a very different reaction if they were told we're going to add a drug to all food and we're going to mass medicate you for your own good. Because we know the human body, everybody's different, we've got different genotypes, phenotypes, different metabolic susceptibilities or problems, or even different levels of nutrients in our in our own bodies compared to somebody else. And so we will all react differently to this." "So the first thing I'll tell you is that the NHS website used to list all the risks. It stopped a couple in the last couple of weeks, but what it used to say, was anyone with cancer, anyone with a vitamin B12 deficiency, which is underdiagnosed as it is. It can hide vitamin B12, so it gets undertreated, can end up looking like dementia. You end up undiagnosed in an old care home." "Renal problems? Anyone with a stent? So this is a massive, massive number of people. It's a huge number of people." "And then on top of that, 40% of the population have something called an MTHFR mutation. So this is another enzyme that's in the folate processing pathway. So the first enzyme you have to get through, all of us have a very slow enzyme and we get this sort of backlog problem. But for 40% of us, the next stage is also incredibly slow. So those people are particularly vulnerable. And that gene mutation tends to group with people that look like you and me, actually. So they're kind of atopic, you know, fair skin, blonde hair, asthma, eczema, hay fever, family groupings. Those people tend to be the ones that have that NTHFR mutation." "And so it's kind of interesting that when they found problems in the children who'd been given it exposed as fetuses that those babies ended up with things like atopic dermatitis and eczema and you know it was all part of that family of disease." "so much more common now than it would have been 100 years ago when no one was adding folic acid to anything, well it's so much more common now than it was even when we were children. There are obviously a multifactorial environmental causes of this, but it's not beyond the realms of possibility that this has played quite a major role in just driving rates up." "So basically in MTHFR people who are deficient, they will get toxic, they will have more trouble processing this. They're more susceptible it seems to the pathological side of the drug and there's just an awful lot of people who are in that category."

Sam Neill. Sudden and unexpected.