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Lots of women already know that getting plenty of folic acid, one of the B vitamins, can reduce the risk of certain birth defects that occur early in pregnancy. But according to a recent article, new evidence now suggests that folic acid deficiency reduces fertility in men and may damage the DNA carried by sperm.
The article goes on to say: After showing that a folate-restricted diet made sperm counts plunge 90 percent in rats, researcher Bruce Ames and his colleagues at the University of California at Berkeley showed that folic acid deficiency has a similar effect in men.
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Some facts on folic acid for men from the University of Florida.
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