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View Post: Do Vitamins Cause Cancer? « drgina
12 hours ago by drginanick  
I am reprinting a press release from the Orthomolecular Medicine News Service that discusses a newly published study, sure to get press, that implies that a simple folate supplement increases cancer rates in patients who are diagnosed ...
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View Post: Science Media Centre » Blog Archive » Folate and vitamin B12 ...
17 Nov 2009 by Aimee Whitcroft  
Folic acid dose was close to the recommendation and the study group did have low folate to start. Folate, vitamin B12 and vitamin B6 work together in a metabolic pathway that has a profound influence on how body cells divide but the way ...
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View Post: One-Carbon Metabolism-Genome Interactions in Folate-Associated ...
20 Nov 2009 by Stover, PJ  
Impairments in folate-mediated 1-carbon metabolism are associated with several common diseases and developmental anomalies including intestinal cancers, vascular disease, cognitive decline, and neural tube defects. ...
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View Post: http://nutritionthoughts.blogspot.com: one carbon folate genetics
24 Nov 2009 by noreply@blogger.com (Martin Eastwood)  
Genetic polymorphisms in the one-carbon folate pathway have been widely studied in association with a number of conditions. Most of the research has focused on the 677C>T polymorphism in the coding region of the 5 ...
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View Post: Effects of metformin with or without supplementation with folate ...
23 Nov 2009 by Palomba, S., Falbo, A., Giallauria, F.,...  
To evaluate whether the administration of metformin exerts any effects on serum homocysteine (Hcy) levels in patients with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), and whether supplementation with folate enhances the positive effects of ...
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View Post: Study raises new concerns over folate supplement-cancer link
24 Nov 2009
MORE evidence has emerged linking folic acid supplementation with an increased risk of cancer. A combined analysis of two Norwegian studies has found patients with ischaemic heart disease who received 0.8 mg/d of folic acid plus 0.4 ...
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