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<div>Originally Posted by <strong>Hesperia</strong> <a href="/community/forum/post/13514824"><img alt="View Post" class="inlineimg" src="/community/img/forum/go_quote.gif" style="border:0px solid;"></a></div>
<div style="font-style:italic;">That was very throughout!<br>
Thank you.<br><br>
Although, please clarify one thing for me...<br>
No folic on its own unless I am taking a multi too? Just trying to think if I could get my vitamins from food sources, I don't like to use multis very much, but still want to take the folic because of the benefits.<br>
-So in short, if I don't take a B-vit or multi, folic is still beneficial and only I would be deprived of possible other b vits?</div>
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IMO you are unlikely to be able to get all of your vitamins needs met for pregnancy strictly from food sources. IF you ate a mostly raw, totally organic diet rich with a wide variety of foods, picked straight from your garden then right into your mouth, then yes, you could likely get all your vitamin and mineral needs met without additional supplementation. But few if any of us can do that. Nonorganic farming practices, travel from farm to store, cooking, preparing, processing, all these things take the vitamins out of our food. It's not like you'd need to worry about birth defects if you went ahead and just took the folic acid. But depriving yourself of the vitamins and minerals necessary to build a baby will likely show up PP. At the very least I'd recommend you take a B-complex along with your folic acid ESPECIALLY if you're vegetarian! But that's just my two cents. Obviously it's your body - your call.