Perks of Folic acid? What is it for?

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I'm ttc and keep hearing about Folic acid. Just wondering what it does? Please and thanks

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It helps prevent birth defects of the brain and spinal cord like spina bifida.

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Not having enough folic acid can cause neural tube defects. It’s the most important thing to supplement during pregnancy, ideally starting a month before conception or as soon as you know you’re pregnant.

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However if you have the mthfr gene variation like up to 50% of the population you can’t process synthetic folic acid from supplements and need an active form

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You 💯 need to be taking folic acid, preferably folate, when TTC. It’s like the #1 rule that every doctor will tell you. We actually learned in highschool that any woman who is not on birth control ahouks take a vitamin with folic acid juuuust in case.

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Basically to put it simply cells that are dividing use it. So the rapidly dividing cells in a fetus need it or it can cause problems

Perks of Folic acid? What is it for?

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