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hi guys in this video I want to talk about the  importance of vitamin A in pregnancy if you’re  

going to get pregnant well you know someone a  family member that’s going to be pregnant send  

this video okay now I don’t know how long  ago but there was a change in the RDA the  

recommended amount of vitamin A in a prenatal  and that now it’s 8,000 okay I use but there’s  

a study I’m going to put a link down below that  talks about the importance of having at least  

twenty to twenty-five thousand I use to prevent  birth defects now there’s three forms of vitamin  

A active forms of vitamin A retinol retinol and  retinyl acid there’s if you actually have to see  

a prenatal you’ll see usually something called  beta carotene that is a precursor to the active  

form and only a small amount of it is converted  okay and the reason why they made this change to  

make it eight thousand which is way too low is because  there’s been a lot of toxic effects of vitamin A  

simply because they were using a synthetic vitamin  A okay you never want to take synthetic vitamin  

A because it’s toxic they weren’t using a natural  one so they decided instead of putting the natural  

they decided to put you the lower dosages of  synthetic or do the precursor beta-carotene okay  

so that’s what happened so here is some of the  birth defects that can occur kidney malformation  

dysfunctional ureter is where you’re urinating  and the urine backs up through the kidney popular  

problems around the the ureters cleft lip cleft  palate where you have that little non-union of the  

lip or the bone right on top of the lip their eye  defects your brain becomes a condition where the  

brain becomes located outside the skull that’s  pretty bad short or long mandible that’s the  

overbite and underbite how many kids have dental  arch problems where their bite is not correct  

that could be a vitamin A deficiency so simple to  correct by just making sure the mother actually  

has a vitamin A so there’s two good sources that  I would recommend one would be cod liver oil make  

sure you get the virgin cod liver oil that’s  the top of the line it’s expensive but it’s  

worth it or grass-fed liver okay you can get  it in tablets or basically just you know eat  

them at least once a week and that will give you  the natural form of vitamin A because out of all  

three of these forms retinoic acid is the most  important form to in development of the embryo  

that’s why you need the vitamin A to be able to  provide that raw material all right thanks for  

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