Supplement of the Month: Vitamin B12
Vitamin B12 (or cobalamin) is an important nutrient involved in nerve, cell, and metabolic functions. Vitamin B12 is used with a variety of other nutrients, like vitamin B9 (folate), and iron for the production of red blood cells. This is because both vitamins B12 and B9 connect to DNA synthesis which has a subsequent effect […]
The Effects of Nutrition During Pregnancy
For a long time, associations have been observed between adverse maternal intrauterine environments and the incidence of non-communicable diseases in later life. For example, the thrifty phenotype hypothesis studies the link between the epidemiological evidence of poor fetal and infant development with permanent detrimental changes in glucose-insulin metabolism (1). These alterations of glucose metabolism can […]