99% of people do not know that once there is a lack of folic acid, the probability of stroke rises sharply, and stroke has become the number one killer of family happiness", 12 seconds to die a person. The incidence of stroke in Chinese is very high, 3~5 times that of European and American people. The reason for this is inseparable from the lack of a necessary element "folic acid".
For healthy adults, 400 mcg of folic acid should be added throughout the day. Both female friends during pregnancy and women in the early stages of pregnancy have special physical qualities. 400~800 micrograms of folic acid should be added every day.
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Folate deficiency can lead to the following problems
1. Cause megaloblastic anemia
Lack of folic acid can inhibit DNA synthesis, resulting in abnormal cell division, enlarged nucleus, decreased cell number, and in severe cases, megaloblastic anemia.
2. Cause cardiovascular disease
Folic acid plays an important role in removing a substance called homocysteine from the blood. High levels of homocysteine increase the likelihood of arteriosclerosis, coronary heart disease, and stroke.
3. Cause fetal nervous system malformations
Folic acid is important for fetal nervous system development, and if it is deficient, it may increase the risk of fetal nervous system malformations, such as anencephaly, spina bifida, spinal bulge and other fatal neurological malformations.
4. Affects the digestive system
Patients will have gastrointestinal digestive and absorption dysfunction, and due to their own decreased appetite, digestive and absorption dysfunction may lead to malnutrition, weight loss, and hypoproteinemia in severe cases.
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Women take one capsule of folic acid a day after the age of 45, 6 benefits or "uninvited", know in advance
1. Improve sleep quality
After the age of 45, women's sleep is not as good as a day, the human internal organs gradually decline, mainly the body's estrogen reduction caused by endocrine disorders, at this time women take a piece of folic acid a day, can effectively improve the aging rate of the ovaries and uterus, prevent estrogen secretion is less, sleep quality will be greatly improved.
2. Protect blood vessels
In middle age, it is necessary to properly supplement folic acid for the body to prevent cardiovascular and cerebrovascular problems, which can accelerate the conversion of cysteine. If blood vessels deposit lipid substances, thrombosis is prone to occur, inducing cerebral infarction, and after middle age, it is necessary to do a good job in cardiovascular and cerebrovascular prevention, because middle-aged people are a group with a high incidence of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.
3. Delay skin aging
When a woman reaches the age of 45, her physical fitness will gradually decline, and skin aging will gradually accelerate, although aging is a normal physiological phenomenon, but to take the right measures to face aging, so as not to become a "yellow-faced woman". Therefore, we should pay attention to supplementing folic acid at ordinary times, which can nourish the skin of the face, improve antioxidant capacity, and delay the speed of skin aging.
4. Reduce hair loss troubles
Many women will have serious hair loss problems after entering middle age, especially when washing or combing their hair. Women's hair loss too much will also affect their own image, so if women insist on taking folic acid every day, it can help damaged hair follicle cells to be repaired, which is conducive to better hair growth.
5. Improve memory
From middle age, memory has decreased significantly, energy is not as good as before, the brain is gradually aging, easy to appear memory loss, appropriate folic acid supplementation can alleviate this situation. Proper supplementation of folic acid in middle-aged women can help increase immunity and memory, delay the arrival of aging, prevent Alzheimer's disease, and reduce the incidence of Alzheimer's disease.
6. Improve malnutrition
Women's endocrine hormone disorders are related to unreasonable diet, and it is necessary to improve the timing of diet and the state of diet to alleviate endocrine hormones and malnutrition. Folic acid can assist gastrointestinal cells, promote intestinal peristalsis, help stabilize hormone levels, eliminate garbage toxins, and maintain good health.
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Take folic acid, pay attention to these three contraindications
1. Avoid eating spicy and stimulating foods
Because spicy and stimulating foods such as peppers and garlic are easy to irritate the gastrointestinal tract, in order to avoid affecting the body's absorption of the efficacy of folic acid preparations, you should try to avoid eating such foods;
2. Avoid drinking tea
Usually tea contains caffeine, tannic acid and other ingredients, if taken with folic acid preparations, it is easy to destroy the active ingredients in folic acid preparations, affecting their efficacy;
3. Avoid overtaking
If excessive consumption of folic acid preparations, it will usually easily lead to imbalance in the body's metabolism, which may lead to gastrointestinal dysfunction, causing nausea, abdominal pain and other discomfort, so you need to pay attention to the appropriate amount when taking folic acid preparations.
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Extension – Can men also eat folic acid?
Conditions in which men need folic acid supplementation include the following:
1. Patients with high blood pressure
Folic acid supplementation in hypertensive patients can reduce the incidence of cardiovascular disease, so it is recommended that patients with hypertension can supplement an appropriate amount of folic acid daily under the guidance of a doctor.
2. Long-term drinkers
Long-term drinkers will have an impact on the absorption of folic acid in the body, so appropriate folic acid supplementation is helpful for the supplementation and absorption of body nutrients.
3. Patients with megaloblastic anemia
This type of anemia itself is caused by folic acid and vitamin B12 deficiency, so appropriate supplementation of folic acid and vitamin B12 can help hemoglobin synthesis and effectively improve anemia.
4. Long-term drug takers
For example, insomniacs who take sleeping pills for a long time, or middle-aged and elderly people who take aspirin for long-term low-dose antithrombosis and diabetic patients who take metformin for a long time, folic acid can be supplemented appropriately to reduce folate deficiency caused by medication.