Mason Natural Folic Acid 400mcg Tablets

Folic acid is a pregnancy superhero! taking a prenatal vitamin with the recommended 400 micrograms (mcg) of folic acid before and during pregnancy can help prevent birth defects of your baby's brain and spinal cord. take it every day and go ahead and have a bowl of fortified cereal, too. what is folic acid? folic acid is a man-made form of a b vitamin called folate. folate plays an important role in the production of red blood cells and helps your baby's neural tube develop into her brain and spinal cord. birth defects occur within the first 3-4 weeks of pregnancy. so it's important to have folate in your system during those early stages when your baby's brain and spinal cord are developing. if you talked to your doctor when you were trying to conceive, she probably told you to start taking a prenatal vitamin with folic acid. one study showed that women who took folic acid for at least a year before getting pregnant cut their chances of delivering early the cdc recommends that

Folic acid( Vitamin B9) has the following research based benefits - Promotes DNA formation which is very necessary for cell growth and development - Prevents brain and spinal cord defect in developing foetus - Prevents heart disease - Has anticancer properties