Monday, October 8, 2007

Folic Acid Lowers Blood Arsenic Levels

ScienceDaily: Folic Acid Lowers Blood Arsenic Levels, Study Shows
2007.10.09
"...treatment with 400 micrograms a day of folic acid, the U.S. recommended dietary allowance, reduced total blood arsenic levels in the study population by 14 percent..."Folic acid supplementation enhanced the detoxification of arsenic to a form that is more readily excreted in urine," said Mary Gamble...Folic acid increased the methylation or detoxification of arsenic in the body, allowing the body to change some of its more toxic metabolite, or methylarsonic (MMA) acid, to a form that could more easily be excreted from the body, thus lowering the levels of arsenic found in the blood..."

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