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On this page on the NHS website, the NHS states that folic acid supplements may not be suitable for a number of groups of people due to existing health conditions. It also lists other medication which may not "mix well" with folic acid. nhs.uk/medicines/folic-acid/ I asked grok to estimate how many people in Britain fall into these categories. Here are the results. Anyone with cancer who is still alive: Almost 3.5 million people; People with a coronary stent: Up to a million; Pernicious anaemia / B12 deficiency anaemia: 70,000; Confirmed allergy to folic acid: negligible; Unconfirmed allergy to folic acid: unknown. Aspirin use: Millions of people; Lithium use: 40,000 to 70,000 people; Older epilepsy medicines: Tens of thousands of people; Sulfasalazine: Tens of thousands of people; Obviously individuals may fall into more than one of these categories, but it seems clear that the total number of people who fall into at least one of the listed categories is most likely in the several-million range. The government is in the process of mandating the addition of folic acid to all non-wholemeal flour. This means that everyone who eats anything which contains white flour (including the several million people for whom the NHS says folic acid may not be suitable) - and that is a bewilderingly long list of everyday food products - is now going to be consuming additional folic acid. Folic acid which may cause them harm. What dose will they be receiving? They have no idea. I have no idea. The government has no idea. The dose they will receive is not measured or controlled as any other medicine would be. The dose they receive depends entirely on their diet. If they eat a carb-heavy diet, involving breakfast cereal, bread, pies, pastries, biscuits, cakes, they are likely to be consuming a considerable amount of folic acid. Which, as the NHS has already acknowledged, might be harmful to them. Has the NHS warned them not to eat these foods? No. Has the government warned them not to eat these foods? No. They will say, no doubt, that the "experts" have told them that the amounts consumed via everyday foods are "safe". But they can't possibly know that. Putting aside how wrong those same experts have been about coronavirus, vaccines, masks, lockdowns and any number of other recent public health initiatives, they have no idea what dose any single individual will get. And let's not forget - the sole reason that folic acid is now being added to flour, the government says, is that its previous attempts to encourage women of child-bearing age to take folic acid supplements to prevent neural tube defects in babies have not been as successful as they'd like in some demographics. So instead of finding a better solution for that problem, they are now (unnecessarily) medicating the entire population, including many millions of people who the NHS itself acknowledges may not be suitable patients for additional folic acid. What a complete and utter clusterf*ck. It's unbelievable this story isn't front page news.