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5-MTHF prenatal trial: what the Ritual-funded RCT actually showed

A 24-week randomized trial in Frontiers in Nutrition compared 5-MTHF and folic acid prenatal multivitamins in 62 second- and third-trimester pregnancies. The methylated form held folate status with about a quarter of the unmetabolized folic acid. Industry-funded, narrowly scoped, and worth reading carefully.