Using magnesium and folate without blood test results?

>>8813098
*the most sense to only be taking

Mineral supplements are like vitamins. You have to take way over your %rda for it to be bad. Depression is complex and I would make sure you have a good routine for sleep and a good balanced diet. Don't drink or smoke or take drugs. And get a hobby that you find fun and interesting.

>>8814082
That thing "Enlyte" that he wants be to take is very expensive though and likely not covered by my insurance. It would have an adverse effect upon my pocket book, so I would only want to be taking it if it would actually work. He wants me to be taking it before we get the blood test results back, which I would think would not make much sense, so I was asking /sci/ if it would make sense.

Maybe you should try getting a second opinion.

Did they prescribe gf?

>>8813098
>including of folate levels and MTHFR (an enzyme involved in a pathway involving folate, apparently) mutations
So, what were the results? Do you have a deficient MTHFR allele? It's rate-limiting in the folate cycle and its product, methyltetrahydrofolate, is needed for a cofactor for the rate-limiting step of monoamine synthesis. There's evidence implicating it in many cases of depression. Taking this folate derivative as a supplement is an effective treatment for such a condition.

Because MTFHR is rate-limiting, extra folic acid, say, from dietary sources, won't do you any good as long as it's not insufficient dietary folate causing your problems in the first place. Enlyte contains the derivative I'm talking about (7mg, compare with 7.5 or 15mg doses in Deplin, a pure formulation,) so it should be fine.

>wouldn't it make the most sense to only get taking folate and magnesium if a blood test showed that I am deficient in them
Yes.
>does it make sense to take them before/without the blood test results?
No.

If you don't have defective MTHFR alleles, you'd probably be better off with SSRIs or doing nitrous or subanesthetic doses of ketamine once every three months.
Note: that last part isn't a joke, there are quite a few papers and reviews on NMDA antagonists in the treatment of depression.

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>>8815702
>prescribed gf
>insurance doesn't cover it

>>8815745
We have not gotten the blood test results back yet, they just drew the blood today.

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>>8815702
No, and I would want a catboy bf anyway.

>>8816164

engineer detected, lol.

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>>8816171
How did you guess?

>>8816178

engineers are known for being homosexual weebs.

also,

>grill cosplaying as qt troubled asset relief program

unacceptable

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>>8816180
Yes, I am indeed a mostly gay weeb.

Sorry, I got the images mixed up. Here is the one of a male cosplaying as Felix Argyle. It would seem that the original source had deleted their article on this, so I had to use the Internet Archive. It was missing most of the images, though.

>>8816190

>male

I want to believe

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>>8816200
It is true:
https://web.archive.org/web/20160921001309/http://goboiano.com/list/5095-male-cosplayer-nails-the-cutest-felix-re%253Azero-cosplay-ever
http://weibo.cn/u/1168890765?jumpfrom=weibocom
>Pic related, he is the person on the left.

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>>8815702
>Prescribe GF
>Pharmacy doesn't carry it

>>8816190
>mostly gay weeb
I think I see where you have you problems from, depressionfag.

>>8816164
Genetically engineered catboys with tiny dicks when?

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>>8816885
Hopefully soon, although hopefully without the tiny dicks part, and hopefully allowing for the conversion of an already adult human.