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[quote=cczbunnie83][quote=Anonymous]I am in NYC.  I am cycling at Cornell.  I am also heterozygous for MTHFR and my RE prescribed Folgard.  I then saw a hematologist- top hematologist in NYC for thrombophilia stuff, and she agreed with the Folgard prescription.  I hadn't heard it wasn't a good idea.  What did the research say about WHY?[/quote]

Basically, from what I understand, is that our body cannot properly process folic acid (a synthetic form of folate), and as heterozygous we only get about 60% of our intake. So yeah the logic would be to up our intake with more folic acid, so that we reach the 100%, right? But this is wrong because what we should be doing is getting the right form, an already processed from called Methylfolate or Folinic acid, which skips the processing part (which we can't do properly bcos we have MTHFR) and be successfully used by our body. An excess of folic acid is actually for us MTHFR a BAD thing because it stays in our body, unprocessed, and this levels build up. Elevated folic acid has potential to stimulate pre-existing cancer cells.

Then we are not properly packed with folate, then we ttc, and if we are successful we are not really giving our bodies and our babies the necessary amount of folate to be healthy. Then even more, lets say we do have our babies which have at least 50% chance of getting out MTHFR gene and already a propensity to all the ailments related to MTHFR, like Autism.

I think the big thing here for me is not only to be able to carry to term, but to really give my body what it needs to grow a healthy baby in the future... I'm scared when I go to the parenting section of this and other forums and read so many stories of mamas realizing they never took the right version of folate and now are realizing that maybe that has to do with their babies/kids showing signs of autism and other diseases/disorders.

Here are some links I found useful and that made me question the Folgard prescription. Let me know what you think.

http://mthfr.net/  (this website is soooo full of info, it actually gives me a headache but its worth reading)

http://mthfr.net/is-mthfr-affecting-your-pregnancy/2013/05/24/

This one is a blog and it gives a nice summary of MTHFR and pregnancy
http://mthfrliving.com/health-conditions/preparing-pregnancy-mthfr-mutations/#comment-1047
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