DAily vitamins?

Question

I am a healthy 19 year old woman. last time i was at my doctor's she told me that if i wanted to have children in the future, that i should start taking a woman's daily vitamin (not prentatl ones, just normal women's vitamins). What affect would me tkaing or not taking vitiamins now have on any children i might have in the distant future? i don't understand why i would have to take them now.

Answer 1

I gonna disagree with the other posters. Unless you are considering conceiving now, there is absolutely no evidence that a multivitamin will improve your health or the health of a future child. In fact, people were having perfectly healthy children for centuries without any supplements at all.

There is some evidence to suggest the folate supplementation may reduce the risk of birth defects in pregnant (and perhaps conceiving) women. Even in this case the effects are fairly small.

There is no harm to taking a standard multivitamin. (The whole stress formula, men's and women's vitamin, etc. is largely bogus.) If you eat a well balanced diet with plenty of fruits and vegetables, and only modest amounts of highly processed foods you should be just fine without supplements.

For full disclosure sake, I do take a multivitamin daily, a generic version of Centrum.

Answer 2

First off of to help keep your immune system healthy so you don't get colds and flu you should already be taking a good multivitamin any way. A womens mulitvitamin normally contains folic acid which helps with pregnancy and having a normal healthy baby. Do a search for folic acid and pregnancy on the web and read more about it. Get a good mulitvitamin that is well absorbed by your body and get your immune system healthy. Also be sure to take a good antioxidant supplement daily for good immune system health.

Answer 3

the vitamins will continue to help your body stay healthy and build your immune system that in which will allow your baby to grow inside healthy and strong but if you feel that a baby is not in the cards right now then don't take the vitamins instead eat healthy veggies and include good source of protein in your daily diet

Answer 4

It could benefit u in the long run. U need folic acid in your body to have pretty babies, and vitamins keep u strong and healthy when most vitamins are destroyed in foods u eat when u cook them.
Once u research vitamins, u will take them and possibly try herbals too as u get older.