methylfolate Archives - Gateway Psychiatric Excellent Psychiatric Care Fri, 02 Jul 2021 21:32:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://i0.wp.com/www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/favicon2.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 methylfolate Archives - Gateway Psychiatric 32 32 70562394 Enlyte – methylfolate and more https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/enlyte-methylfolate-and-more/ https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/enlyte-methylfolate-and-more/#respond Fri, 16 Jun 2017 15:39:50 +0000 https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/?p=14073 Enlyte is a therapeutic food that has been designed to help people at risk of functional deficits in folate and methylfolate that may be associated with treatment resistant depression. It contains a mixture of folate, folinic acid and l-methylfolate as well as other co-factors. EnLyte/EnBrace HR/EnLyte-D helps with concentration, motivation, and sleep. Symptoms include depressed mood, loss of interest, problems concentrating, insomnia, ...

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]]> https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/enlyte-methylfolate-and-more/feed/ 0 14073 B Vitamins and Depression and Cognition https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/b-vitamins-depression-cognition/ Sun, 02 Oct 2016 23:18:47 +0000 https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/?p=11932 We ran across a Q&A from Consumer Lab on the role of B vitamins in depression which sparked us to update and expand this section of our page on nutritional supplements. ConsumerLab.com Answers   Question: I’ve heard that having low B-12 or B-6 can cause depression. Is that true? Answer: Yes, being deficient in vitamin B-12 or B-6 can cause ...

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]]> 11932 Methylfolate and Depression https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/methylfolate-and-depression/ Thu, 26 Feb 2015 00:48:16 +0000 https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/?p=8895 Depression and Methylfolate The role of methylfolate in the treatment of patients with depression has once again been highlighted by an article published in the American Journal of Psychiatry in 2016. After successfully treating treatment resistant depression in a patient deficient in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) tetrahydrobiopterin (necessary for biosynthesis of several neurotransmitters) with sapropterin (a synthetic form of tetrahydrobiopterin’s active isomer), ...

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]]> 8895 Genetic Testing Guides Treatment for Bipolar or Depression https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/genetic-testing-guides-treatment-for-bipolar-or-depression/ Wed, 27 Aug 2014 13:58:58 +0000 https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/?p=7958 We have been using a relatively new assay from a company called Genomind (the Genecept test) in some of our patients with bipolar and/or depression. The test involves a saliva sample which is analyzed for ten gene variants that may be useful in guiding treatment. So far we find that in about half of the patients with treatment resistant depression ...

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