What vitamins are important? - Page 2

[BarefootScientist]

Well, that link is from a couple years ago I think. My point in posting it was that while everyone says, oh you NEED to take a prenatal, when you find actual info, no, you really don't.

Do you have a link on the folate/folic acid stuff? I can't seem to find this info. Thanks!

[MrsBone]

Originally Posted by Lady Lilya

Elonwy, I don't think flax is supposed to taste bitter. I'm worried that might mean yours has gone rancid. It is VERY fragile and goes rancid super easy.

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Barefoot, that link you posted, they use "folic acid" and "folate" interchangeably.

See at the end they say a standard prenatal supplement has folate? That's not true. As far as I know, the only one with actual folate is the one made by Thorne.

Also it says in the folic acid section that the recommendation is that if you have a previous child with a neural tube defect you should take extra folic acid? That USED to be the recommendation, before they learned that for a third of us it does no good, and can actually do harm. The more useless synthetic folic acid you take in, the less usable folate you can absorb from food. Unfortunately, most medical professionals are still behind the times with this one.

so wouldn't it be better to eat foods that are naturally high in folate than taking synthetic vitamins?

[Lady Lilya]

Barefoot, there are lots of threads here in the Health and Healing subform about the MTHFR gene and folate.

MrsBone, green leafies and lentils are high in folate. But in recent years there has been available a folate supplement from Thorne Labs.

For me personally, I ate a healthy whole-food diet for a few months (no folic acid supplements, and no fortified foods with folic acid added), and then I got my levels tested before trying to conceive. They were good. But just to be safe, I've been supplementing with Thorne's folate during the first trimester.

[elonwy]

Lady Liyla I had an oversensitive sense of taste even before getting pregnant, and things sometimes taste different to me than other people. I often find things to be overly bitter or sour that most people think are fine. I've experienced this bitter taste with pretty much every flaxseed product I have ever tried, so it's probably just my mouth

[Lady Lilya]

[Arianwen]

Originally Posted by elonwy

Lady Liyla I had an oversensitive sense of taste even before getting pregnant, and things sometimes taste different to me than other people. I often find things to be overly bitter or sour that most people think are fine. I've experienced this bitter taste with pretty much every flaxseed product I have ever tried, so it's probably just my mouth

Do you have an aversion to things like alcohol, grapefruit, coffee etc? Maybe you're a supertaster (I'm a supertaster.)

[WifeofAnt]

I know I couldn't handle almost ANY seasoning for the longest time (besides garlic). The foods DH used to over-season I *still* can't eat because it brings back the memories. I ate bread and butter and macaroni and cheese for about a week because everything else was too strong for me. Eventually I killed off my taste buds to the point where I could eat normally again. Now that I've ditched sugar everything I used to get is way too sweet again...

[Lady Lilya]

Wow!

[elonwy]

Arianwen Yep, I'm a supertaster. I have a super schnozz too. (My DH calls it my spidey-senses) The hyper elevation of this with pregnancy has been kind of unreal though. I smelled someone's coffee creamer about half a block away the other day. Ew. I don't like sweets much either.