Folic acid for fertility - Does folic acid help you get pregnant?
Women looking for the best vitamins to get pregnant faster should have folate at the top of their list.
Health practitioners have long recommended taking folic acid while trying to get pregnant. But that isn’t all that folic acid is needed for.
Folate (the natural form of folic acid) plays a critical role in both female fertility and fetal development. It is required for proper DNA synthesis and repair, control of gene expression, and numerous biological processes involved in cell division. Folate supplementation is widely used for fertility and for preventing neural tube defects (NTDs) in pregnancy.1 A lack of folate prior to conception and during pregnancy has been associated with both infertility and birth defects.2
This blog will highlight the benefits of taking folic acid before pregnancy to improve fertility and prevent birth defects.