Folic Acid helps maintain a healthy heart and helps to prevent neural tube defects in pregnancy.
Essential for the manufacture and maintenance of new cells, folic acid is recommended during the early stages of pregnancy. It is necessary for the normal structure of the neural tube in developing embryos, thus reducing the chances of neural tube defects such as spina bifida.
Recent research also shows that 400mcg of Folic Acid a day can help to maintain a healthy heart by lowering homocysteine levels' in the blood, a recently identified risk factor for heart disease and strokes.
Folic Acid, also known as vitamin B9, is one of the Vitamin B complex.
It is found naturally in beans, leafy green vegetables, citrus fruits, beet, wheat germ and meat.
Each of Healthspan´s 400mcg Folic Acid tablet represents 200% recommended daily allowance of folic acid, the recommended dose if you are trying to conceive or are already in the early months of pregnancy.