This is a YouTube video titled "Calley Means on the Truth Behind Folic Acid" containing a monologue or talk by Calley Means discussing nutrient deficiencies in the American diet, specifically focusing on folic acid supplementation versus natural folate intake and its impact on neural tube defects. The content is educational and health-related, emphasizing the importance of whole food diets.
One of my major arguments that we're nutrient deficient, I was actually reviewing a research article. What they did was they actually looked at the folic acid supplementation in our food supply. And you know, folate is a natural form of folic acid. And you get it in green, leafy vegetables and lots of whole food sources. So if you're eating a diet rich in whole foods, getting plenty of folate, but the majority of Americans are deficient in that. So we came up with synthetic form called folic acid. We started spraying our whole grain supply and there was a slight decline in neural tube defects. And so they said, see, we added folic acid supplementation and neural tube defects went down. But if you, if you had actually done a side by side study and added more natural folate to the diet, you would also see the rates of neural tube defects go down. So our neural tube defects going down because people are missing this synthetic nutrient which we make in a laboratory, or our neural tube defects on the rise because they're not eating healthy diet. And I think that a lot of our pharmaceuticals are there to substitute the lack of nutrients coming from a whole food diet. If you just eat whole foods, that alone would make a material change in your life. Just start there.
