[110][106] High - dose products have received research attention, [100][111] especially for emergency situations such as vitamin A deficiency in malnutrition of children, [112] and for women
taking folate supplements to reduce the risk of breast cancer.
Women
taking folate supplements have higher quality oocytes (egg cell) than those who do not take folate.
If you're planning pregnancy, she recommends
taking a folate supplement as soon as you stop using contraception, or at least a month before you become pregnant.
Would you recommend
taking a folate supplement in addition to this for those trying to conceive?
Not exact matches
If you're going to
take a
supplement,
take natural
folate, or methylated
folate.
Joseph added that women who are likely to get pregnant should start
taking folic acid
supplements before getting pregnant as they may not necessarily receive adequate
folate from diet alone.
Among older adults, additional research might show that it is important to
take supplements only if one has been documented to be
folate - deficient,» said last author Ligi Paul, Ph.D., nutrition scientist in the Vitamin Metabolism Laboratory at the HNRCA.
It can be difficult to get a sufficient level of
folate from your diet, so you should start
taking a
supplement around three months before you plan to conceive and continue with it until the end of the first trimester, during which the spinal chord and brain develop.
«The CDC continues to recommend that, to reduce their risk for a neural tube defect - affected pregnancy, women capable of becoming pregnant should
take 400 micrograms of synthetic folic acid daily, from fortified foods or
supplements or a combination of the two, in addition to consuming food with
folate from a varied diet.»
The study also found that women who
took folate and B12
supplements three to five times a week were less likely overall to have a child with autism, particularly when they're
taken during the first and second trimesters, Fallin said.
Rather than
taking folic acid
supplements, women with this gene mutation instead need to
take the active form of
folate, known as methyl
folate or 5 - MTHF.
However,
taking Vitamin C
supplements does not provide the same protective benefits as drinking a glass of freshly squeezed orange juice, because in oranges the Vitamin C is part of a combination of good nutrients such as fiber,
folate, potassium, calcium, and more.
In my opinion, women on the Pill should
take a
supplement containing B complex vitamins (B2, B6 and B12), together with methylated
folate, vitamins E and C as well as the minerals magnesium, zinc, and selenium.
This is why everybody should be
taking a B12,
folate, and B6
supplement because these
supplements help to turn homocysteine back into methionine or into other metabolized molecules that are not destructive to our tissues.
-- Get
Folate (Folic acid) by consuming green leafy vegetables every day or if you want
supplement take it only in the form of folacin.
Spinach is a great source of
folate, which may be preferable to folic acid
supplements (though the latter should probably still be
taken in early pregnancy).
I didn't
take them because they were synthetic and had folic acid in them as well (which is a synthetic form of
folate that is not recommended) and I prefer to
take food source
supplements.
A 2013 study from the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found subjects who
took vitamin B - 12 and
folate supplements had significantly lower incidences of age - related macular degeneration (AMD) ten years later.
You said that you
took this vitamin yourself, but did you add any additional
folate supplements because it only has 600 mcg of
folate.
If you eat green leafy vegetables on a regular basis you don't actually need
folate supplements but you you avoid consuming them regularly instead of folic acid
take folate in its active form of 5 methyltetrahydrofolate.