Comments on: 6 Weeks Pregnant With Twins: Belly Pictures, Symptoms & Ultrasound https://about-twins.com/pregnancy/6-weeks-pregnant-with-twins/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=6-weeks-pregnant-with-twins Fri, 06 Mar 2020 22:01:02 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 By: Kate Phillipa Clark https://about-twins.com/pregnancy/6-weeks-pregnant-with-twins/#comment-3142 Mon, 02 Jul 2018 17:46:19 +0000 https://about-twins.com/?p=1277#comment-3142 In reply to Carolyne Spackman.

Hi Carolyne,

Thank you for your comment. The World Health Organization as well as the American Pregnancy Association (and many other associations) strongly recommend daily folic acid supplementation as part of the antenatal care. Could you refer to the research you base your comment on (in relation to folic acid being harmful as a supplement)?

]]> By: Carolyne Spackman https://about-twins.com/pregnancy/6-weeks-pregnant-with-twins/#comment-3141 Sun, 01 Jul 2018 16:16:40 +0000 https://about-twins.com/?p=1277#comment-3141 Folic acid as a supplement is harmful. People should be taking l-methylfolate, the natural, methylated form. This is especially vital for those with mthfr gene defects which is about half the population. Eating foods fortified with synthetic folic acid causes high levels of un-methylated folic acid to build up in the body which is not only useless, but it prevents the active l-methylfolate from being available. Please, please, please make an adjustment to your blog about this because too many people are actually getting no protection against birth defects and in fact are building up harmful levels of folic acid.

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