Quatrefolic^® News

A Quatrefolic^® tool is available! Now you can find a clear chart that explains the folate metabolic pathway, from folic acid to active 5-methyltetrahydrofolate (5-MTHF)! As a matter of fact, folic acid must be converted to an active form before it is used by the body.

The “Active Folate and Vitamin K2 Seminar”, organized by Gnosis by Lesaffre and Samoh Pharm attracted 82 participants including 12 CMOs and over 30 brands. This event generated a lot of buzz around Quatrefolic^®, MenaQ7^® and vitaMK7^®.

Quatrefolic^® 360 collection gets a new video dedicated to cardiovascular health and the correlated benefits of folate supplementation. How may folate support cardiovascular health? Discover now!

"Quatrefolic^® 360" is a new collection of brochures dedicated to the wide range of applications of the 5-MTHF, the active folate in human health, and its advantages compared to folic acid.

On 14th July, more than 100 people will attend the "Active Folate and Vitamin K2 Seminar" organized by Gnosis by Lesaffre and key partner Samoh Pharm to share science and opportunities on Quatrefolic^®, MenaQ7^® and vitaMK7^®.

Folate – also known as water-soluble vitamin B9 – is an essential nutrition component in the human diet that supports health, growth and metabolism.

Folate, also known as vitamin B9, is the generic term given to a family of chemically-similar compounds which are said to be beneficial for preventing a range of health conditions (Scaglione and Panzavolta, 2014).

Folate is a generic term used to describe a water-soluble compound and is known as vitamin B9. It is essential for cell functioning, metabolism, growth and multiplication through a key role in the DNA, histone and protein production. Folate is also an important biological compound in the body which helps to break down homocysteine, a natural metabolite that needs to be removed from the plasma due to its toxicity (Moll and Davis, 2017).

B vitamins are a group of eight water-soluble vitamins – B1 (thiamine), B2 (riboflavin), B3 (niacin), B5 (pantothenic acid), B6 (pyridoxine), B7 (biotin), B9 (folate) and B12 (cobalamin) –  that act as cofactors, precursors and substrates for numerous biological processes. They are involved in cell metabolism, brain function, energy production, DNA/RNA synthesis and repair, as well as in the synthesis of a number of neurochemicals and signalling molecules (Kennedy, 2016).