Methylfolate is the methylated (biologically active form) of vitamin B9, which is the form your body can readily utilize. By opting for methylfolate instead of folic acid, you can bypass the metabolic pathway that converts folic acid into methylfolate, which involves several steps:

Folic acid → dihydrofolate → tetrahydrofolate → 5,10 methylene THF → methylfolate.

For individuals with the MTHFR gene variant, converting folic acid into methylfolate can be difficult due to the body's inability to produce the necessary enzyme. As a result, taking methylfolate is essential for those individuals. However, even if you do not have the MTHFR gene variant, there are numerous benefits to including methylfolate in your supplementation.

At Mama Bird, we prioritize using the most bioavailable ingredients to ensure that your body can easily absorb and benefit from them. This approach makes our products highly effective.

While food-based ingredients might seem appealing, they can often contain unwanted substances such as herbicides, pesticides, heavy metals, and microbes. To ensure these food-derived vitamins are clean, they must undergo extensive processing to remove these compounds. However this process can sometimes change nutrients into less active forms, and manufacturers often need to add preservatives to maintain their stability.

By choosing our carefully controlled production methods, we avoid these issues from the start, keeping our ingredients clean and bioavailable. This means you can count on our vitamins for results, without any concern about contaminants.

Did you know there are different forms of fish oil?

The triglyceride form is the natural form of omega-3's (DHA and EPA) in fish oil. Ethyl Esters are chemically processed.

We answer those questions in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hq1Q6UR5Ao

Thank you for your interest in our Best Nest Wellness products. We appreciate your question regarding the choice of tablets over capsules for our multivitamins.

As leaders in brain health, we carefully research and develop each formula to ensure that our products are effective, balanced, and neurologically advanced. We opted for a tablet form for several reasons:

 * Convenience: Tablets allow for taking fewer, of them, which can be more manageable for many individuals.

 * Higher Potency: The compressibility of tablets enables us to include a larger amount of vitamins per serving.

 * Controlled Release: Tablets can incorporate controlled-release agents that assist with the specific uptake of nutrients.

 * Customized Shape and Size: We have more control over the shape and size of the tablet, allowing for a more pleasant user experience.

Vitamin B12, or cobalamin, is unique among vitamins because it contains a metal ion, cobalt, from which the term cobalamin is derived. There are two active coenzyme forms of vitamin B12: methylcobalamin and adenosylcobalamin, which may help support healthy fetal development, energy metabolism, and the methylation process. 

Adenosylcobalamin is one of the two coenzyme forms of vitamin B12, and the other is methylcobalamin. These are the forms used in enzymes in the human body. 

Methylcobalamin plays an important role in methylation. It can act as a methyl donor (It donates a methyl group, a 1-carbon-3 hydrogen molecule, to other compounds) to support DNA, RNA, protein, lipid, and hormone synthesis. 

Adenosylcobalamin is used in the enzyme L-methyl-malonyl-CoA mutase. This enzyme sits at a crossroads between the Krebs cycle and many amino acids. It is important for cellular energy production and building many important molecules. Both types work synergistically to give you to support brain development and function and the resulting benefits: focus, energy, and mood balance.