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Leucovorin

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A medication that provides folate to the body, used as a treatment that bypasses blocked folate receptors to allow methylated folate to cross the blood-brain barrier.

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Christopher Palmer recommends ✓ High confidence
"There is an existing treatment called leucovorin that we can deliver today to get folate into your brain and spinal cord"

Attribution: Palmer presents leucovorin as an available treatment option for folate antibody issues

Marty Makary mentioned ✓ High confidence
"They have observed that if you give leucovorin as an example which bypasses the blocked receptor allowing methylated folate to get into the blood-brain barrier they have seen clinical improvement."

Attribution: Marty Makary discusses leucovorin as a potential treatment for autism that some doctors have observed to show clinical improvement