VEGALYSIS

Vitamin B12

Folate (serum) — optimal range for vegans & vegetarians

Vitamin B9 in serum.

Optimal range

6–45 ng/mL

How a value is read

Deficient< 4 ng/mL
Below optimal4 – 6 ng/mL
Optimal6 – 45 ng/mL
Above optimal> 45 ng/mL

Bands are given in the marker's canonical unit; values in other units are converted automatically.

Why it matters on a plant-based diet

Folate is usually high in vegans thanks to greens and legumes. Crucially, high folate can MASK B12 deficiency, delaying anemia but not the neurological damage.

A single marker decides nothing

Deficiencies mask one another: high folate hides low B12, inflammation inflates ferritin, low zinc mimics iron deficiency. VEGALYSIS reads the whole picture and explains the links.

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Units

  • ng/mL
  • nmol/L× 0.441 → ng/mL

VEGALYSIS accepts any of these units and converts the value to the canonical one.

Names seen on lab reports

folate · folic acid · vitamin b9 · фолат · фолиевая кислота · витамин b9

Sources

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Educational material; not a substitute for a clinician's advice.