Amazing results from a study conducted by Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston reveals that the use of this common vitamin significantly reduces high blood pressure.
This supplement is usually prescribed to young child-bearing age women, as it is proven to prevent birth defects. However, according to this new research, we should all be taking this incredibly powerful supplement to avoid high blood pressure.
The study, involving more than 150,000 women ages between 26 and 70, was conducted to research the effects of folic acid supplementation on high blood pressure.
The researchers discovered that young females who consume at least 800 mg of folic acid per day, lower the risks of developing high blood pressure by one third in comparison with women who took 200 mg or less per day.
Researchers noted that even though older women consuming folic acid daily benefited from it, their high blood pressure risk was reduced only by 13 percent, compared to 30 percent for the younger woman.
Folic acid is a B-group vitamin naturally found in dark, leafy greens like spinach, collard greens and romaine lettuce. As well, vegetables like asparagus, broccoli and citrus fruits are loaded with this vital nutrient.
Folic acid is widely available all over the world in the form of a supplement. You can purchase it at the drug store or the health food store.
But since folic acid use is more of a preventable thing, it may not be enough to lower your blood pressure if you’ve already developed hypertension.
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Very good guidance from Blue Heron Health News
Should not that be 800 MCG instead of 800MG.
Great advice.
Should that be mcg or ug as it is impossible to get mg in this product. Interested, please let me know.
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I think you have made a ‘typo’ and if I am correct then you need to correct it.
It appears that I can only purchase Folic Acid in 400 ?g (international unit) tablets and according to my calculations this means that I will need to consume 1,200 of these tablets per day to follow your advice.
My calculation is as follows:
800(mg) * 1,000(mcg) = 800,000(mcg) * 0.6(dfe) = 480,000(?g) / 400(?g) = 1200 x 400(?g) tablets.
Phew! I think that I need to go and lie down for an hour.
Best wishes and thank you for your Website.
?g = Folic Acid international unit
mg = milligrams
mcg = micrograms
dfe = dietary folate equivalent (0.6 ?g (microgram) of folic acid supplement)
I think you have made a ‘typo’ and if I am correct then you need to correct it.
It appears that I can only purchase Folic Acid in 400 ug (international unit) tablets and according to my calculations this means that I will need to consume 1,200 of these tablets per day to follow your advice.
My calculation is as follows:
800(mg) * 1,000(mcg) = 800,000(mcg) * 0.6(dfe) = 480,000(ug) / 400(ug) = 1200 x 400(ug) tablets.
Phew! I think that I need to go and lie down for half an hour.
Best wishes and thank you for your Website.
ug = Folic Acid international unit
mg = milligrams
mcg = micrograms
dfe = dietary folate equivalent (0.6 ug (microgram) of folic acid supplement)
I believe one needs folate, not folic acid.
I consider the article to be a considerable disservice, for its omissions.
Many years ago, women were having babies with Spina Bifida. And over time, it was found that if their folic acid level was high enough, they weren’t as likely to have a baby with that problem. Sure enough, by making a big push for adequate levels preconception, the rate of Spina Bifida babies went down quite a bit.
But there were still women with very adequate, even high levels of Folic Acid, having babies with the Spina Bifida malformation. Hmmm, wonder why.
Then along came the Human Genome Project, in which different aspects of the human DNA were able to be analyzed. One of those things has since been called the MTHFR mutation, in which folic acid, which is a manufactured version of folates that are naturally occurring in plants, is not able to be as effectively used by about 45% of the population. It’s called the methylation defect.
Now, the pharmacy companies know this, but continue to put out products that they know may well be less effective, because the folic acid can prevent the folates from going into the tissue in an effective fashion. So unless you have had your genetic status checked, YOU may be one of those 45%, and you should have ZERO folic acid, whether you’re talking about vitamins, or bread, or anything else that still has the folic acid supplementation requirement. The legislators are not going to tell the pharmacy companies to stop doing what they’ve been told to do before the issue was found. After all, the methylfolate is much more expensive than folic acid. But in lab tests, Folate and folic acid are seen as equivalent.
It’s a spectacular case of “Buyer Beware”, and unfortunately, doctors do not typically launch into that discussion BEFORE the woman has conceived, and afterwards there’s nothing she can do about it anyway.
Good information
I have also read that it is folate one should be getting, not folic acid. Additionally I read a few years ago that supplementation with folic acid caused enough of an increase in colon cancer that the public health agency in a Latin American country told people to stop taking it.