If you’re planning to get pregnant, one of the first things your doctor will tell you is to take a daily prenatal vitamin with folic acid. That’s because folic acid — the synthetic form of folate, or ...
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Only 38% of women in a recent UK survey took folic acid while trying for a baby, despite long‑standing NHS advice. Why are so ...
I remember first learning about folic acid maybe 15 years ago in school. Unless you were a chemist "folic acid" and "folate" were pretty much interchangeable words – except that folate was the form of ...