More Good News About Multivitamins
November 23, 2006 by kate baggott
Filed under Mental Health, Nutrition
A few months ago, doctors in Toronto recommended that all women of childbearing age take prenatal vitamins even if they aren’t planning to become pregnant to prevent birth defects. In addition, women who have just given birth are advised to continue to take their vitamins to aid recovery and help prevent post partum depression.
The new news reported in Maclean’s magazine is that taking vitamins may prevent infertility due to ovulation problems.
Dr. Jorge Chavarro of the department of nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health who led the study says that there does appear to be a connection between vitamina and ovulation.
- “Women who consumed three or more multivitamins per week had a significantly lower risk of ovulatory infertility compared to women who did not consume multivitamins, and these results remained significant after adjusting for numerous factors that have been previously found to be related to fertility,” said Dr. Chavarro.
The methodology of the study involved studying the diets of 18,555 married women for 8 years based on the completion of a food questionnaire.
- “438 women reported infertility due to a problem with ovulation. Women who consumed six or more multivitamin tablets per week had a 40 per cent lower risk of infertility,” said the magazine article.
Thanks for the great info. After I gave birth, I continued to take that huge bottle of prenatals until they were gone. I think I prefer them over the regualar multi-vitamin ones!
Stuff like that makes me wonder how bad our diets have really become. It’s interesting to think that there is that much of a link between something like folic acid and fertility especially with the amount of recent infertility when most people’s daily diet is much less old fashioned as it used to be.