FAQs About Women's Multivitamins
While it’s always best to get a balanced and varied diet, it isn’t always possible. This is where a multivitamin can come in handy. Multivitamins can fill small but critical nutritional gaps, and the potential benefits should outweigh any potential side effects.
Taking a multivitamin can boost a woman's health as it can contribute to reproduction, hormone regulation, immunity and more. Multivitamins contain commonly contain folate, which is a B vitamin that supports women of reproductive ages. Studies have suggested that pregnancy is associated with an increased folate demand which isn’t always covered by a natural dietary intake (Tamura, T et al. 2006).
Tamura, T et al. 2006, ‘Folate and human reproduction’, The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition’, accessed 24 November 2022, https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/article/83/5/993/4649748?login=true#110938919