Folic acid
Posted by Paul Swanson
Think the obesity epidemic is just a moral failure of “sloth and gluttony”?
Think again.
They told us for 50 years to “Eat less, move more”.
But since the 1970s that’s never been a fair fight:
In a 2016 study by the University of Alberta, scientists showed that folic acid acts as a direct molecular accelerant for visceral fat accumulation.
A peer-reviewed study demonstrating a direct, causal cellular mechanism where a synthetic food additive disrupts mammalian energy routing, expands visceral fat cells, and triggers systemic insulin resistance is a massive public health safety signal.
In honest science, when a hazard flag that big is raised, the rule is immediate reproduction, verification, and follow-up trials.
But the establishment didn’t follow it up.
The line of inquiry was completely ignored. Why? Because proving a multi-billion-pound global food fortification program is actively driving the metabolic syndrome crisis strangely isn’t of interest.
So until someone actually steps up and runs the human trials they are terrified to look at, the 2016 Alberta study remains the literal cutting edge of mammalian pre-clinical data on this mechanism. It stands entirely unrefuted.
Here is that study:
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5083982/