DNA allows cells to replicate normally.
Most adults are deficient in folic acid.
Folic acid appears to be deficient in most heart disease sufferers, and regular addition of folic acid supplements may prevent as many as 13,500 deaths from cardiovascular disease each year. Women who are or are considering becoming pregnant should take 800 mcg daily. Folate levels and neural tube defects. Maternal periconceptional use of multivitamins and reduced risk for conotruncal heart defects and limb deficiencies among offspring. 3 Shaw GM, Lammer EJ, Wasserman CR, et al.