Check your vitamins for "Folic Acid" and if present -- toss them! Government poisoning you since 1998 with this.

Very interesting, I never heard this before, thank you OP. Here in Europe it is drummed into all pregnant women and those wanting to get pregnant to take a 400 mg folic acid supplement per day in order to prevent spina bifida in the baby. But if you check the following link:

[link to www.spinabifidaassociation.org]

it seems the spina bifida association doesn't even know what the exact cause of the birth defect is. It is indeed strange that folic acid supplements are promoted as a matter of course (and even using guilt trips, as in "you wouldn't want to be responsible for your baby being born with a preventable defect") and over any other supplements a pregnant woman could or should take.

I'm starting to really believe that one should interpret official guidelines using not only discernment but the 180 degrees rule: when they say you should, you'd better leave well alone, and when they say you shouldn't, assume it's actually good for you and incorporate it in your diet!

Folic acid causes Down Syndrome an other chromosome abnormalities (incuding SB and CP) in those with the mthfr mutation.

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