Why Folates Make My Anxiety Worse

The problem isn’t the form of folate. The truth is that supplementing with folate isn’t good for everyone. I often get asked questions about this.  Should I take methylated folate? Or folinic acid? Does it matter? What if I have MTHFR?

Wonder no more! I am offering my over 20 years of experience treating mental health cases in a new e-course! The focus is on methylation, anxiety, depression, and epigenetics. In this short course, we explore why folate is not helpful for everyone and the reasons for this.

Hi, I’m Dr. Gil Winkelman, naturopathic doctor and psychotherapist. With over 20 years of healthcare experience, I have helped thousands of people with mental health issues including anxiety, depression, and OCD improve their lives and feel better without pharmaceuticals. I am trained in the Walsh Protocol, neurofeedback, and trauma modalities and learned the best ways to help people feel better without drugs.

Unfortunately, the role of nutrients to improve health is confusing. All too often I have received messages from people wondering why their vitamins make them feel worse. Why does this happen? Because there is a lot of oversimplified misinformation floating around that needs to be corrected. Everyone is different. And SNP tests do not always have the answers to people’s issues. This course aims to unwind some of the confusion. 

In this course you will learn:

• Folate’s role in the methylation cycle
• What an overmethylator and undermethylator means in terms of mental health
• Why folate isn’t needed by everyone
• Why MTHFR isn’t the best test for methylation status
• How to Lower Homocysteine without Folate
• How much Folate you need
• What to do if Folate bothers your system.

There is also a more extensive course that you purchase here. In it you will learn about the methylation cycle, epigenetics, other causes of anxiety, tests that are useful, and the role of vitamins. This course is an abbreviated version of the the first two modules of that course.