The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
folic acid is really important to prevent neural tube defects but it's also important in cell division and how the ovary is growing follicles and growing eggs so should people women but also men be taking a vitamin with folic acid even when they're not trying to conceive
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Bookmarking — the dossier-vs-overview split is the right call. Most of the time I want overview; sometimes I want receipts.
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I recommend anybody who's in their reproductive years take a prenatal vitamin