Australian researchers find that Niacin, a common supplement can avert miscarriages and birth defects
7 years, 7 months ago

Australian researchers find that Niacin, a common supplement can avert miscarriages and birth defects

India TV News  

A team of Australian researchers have found out a dietary supplement which can avert miscarriages and many other types of birth defects in pregnant women. It was said that the common supplement Niacin, which is known as Vitamin B3 is potent enough to cure molecular deficiencies that can cause birth defects and miscarriages in women, as per Xinhua news agency. To this day, the cause of 80% of birth defects is still unknown to scientists, but with the new discovery, pregnant women around the world will now be able to avert these abnormalities like cleft palate, kidney, heart and spinal issues. The Executive Director of the Victor Chang Institute Robert Graham said that women need to be taking vitamin B3 well before they decide to get pregnant.

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Breakthrough study: Vitamin B3 may prevent miscarriages and birth defects
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Breakthrough study: Vitamin B3 may prevent miscarriages and birth defects

Salon  

“We have discovered a whole new cause of birth defects and a way to treat it as well,” Professor Sally Dunwoodie, lead researcher at the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute in Sydney, Australia, told ABC News. Dunwoodie, along with other scientists, recently found a link between women who have had multiple miscarriages and babies born with birth defects: a deficit …

Vitamin B3 may prevent some miscarriages, birth defects, study says
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Vitamin B3 may prevent some miscarriages, birth defects, study says

CNN  

Story highlights Your body needs vitamin B3 to make NAD, an essential molecule Adding B3 to diet of mice with genetic defect prevented miscarriages, birth defects CNN — Vitamin B3 – found in meat and green vegetables – has been shown to prevent one genetic cause of birth defects and miscarriages, according to a new study. “Not only have we …

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