Folic acid is truly indispensable in pregnancy. The list of its useful properties is extremely long and recently scientists have introduced one more item. It turns out that the use of folic acid during pregnancy is a guarantee that your child will not be delayed with speech development. This phenomenon can be called quite logical, since folic acid as a whole protects against various disorders of the nervous system in children, including speech disorders.

If the mother takes folic acid, then the risk of speech disorders in children is reduced by exactly half in comparison with the average. And that's surprising - no other vitamin or trace element has a similar property - if different substances can approach the risk of other neurological disorders, then in this matter folic acid is truly indispensable.

The researchers analyzed the state of mothers during pregnancy, and their children during the first three years of life. Scientists watched how children learn to speak - in total the control group included 40 thousand.

Children - those of them whose mothers took folic acid during pregnancy, were subject to speech disorders in 0.5% of cases. If folic acid was not taken by the mother, then the risk increased to 1%.

However, this study is another example of how scientists establish the presence of a phenomenon, but can not in any way explain it. How exactly folic acid contributes to the optimal development of the fetus - for medicine this is for the most part a mystery.

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