Methylation, Folic acid, Anxiety and Gary Brecka is this legit?

[Jameshuh]

Has anyone else looked into the claims of this Gary Brecka guy. He claims that a large number of people who experience anxiety actually have trouble with processing folic acid (something like 44% of the population), which causes a deficiency and many symptoms such as anxiety. During my recent anxiety episode I was overseas, and as my wife pointed out, eating massive amounts of high folate food, it did come on sort of out the the blue which causes me to wonder if these claims are true. Has anyone else looked into this in detail? Here is where he talks about it (you can skip his life story at the start if not interested). youtube.com/watch?v=qSBhVlO...(Not working as expected?)

[Gambit62]

This looks like an infomercial rather than good Science.

There is a lot of hype around the MTHFR gene and variants from people selling products. Very few variants have a significant impact.

Personally I'd be very wary of anything that uses the word 'optimal'.

[Jameshuh in reply to Gambit62]

Yes I am very wary of it, it certainly sounds interesting but it also does have a too good to be true ring to it. Have you looked into the details of the science on it? I like the idea of getting to root causes but I'm also aware that there are a lot of people out there who make a living exploiting people with an illness by telling them what they want to hear.

[Gambit62 in reply to Jameshuh]

I've looked a bit at genetics as a personal interest but genetics is off topic for the forum.

[Jameshuh in reply to Gambit62]

Genetics as it relates to anxiety though?

[Gambit62 in reply to Jameshuh]

anxiety is a general term. It can be caused by things going wrong in a number of processes, including B12 deficiency caused by PA and other absorption problems. It may have a genetic component but genetic interactions are complex. This forum is not a place for that discussion

[Jameshuh in reply to Gambit62]

Fair enough. I'm for trying anything that might help but understand that this is not the place for a discussion of genetics in detail.