{"id":44,"date":"2008-11-30T11:13:33","date_gmt":"2008-11-30T18:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glossary.ultimatefatburner.com\/folic-acid.php"},"modified":"2015-02-12T21:10:10","modified_gmt":"2015-02-13T02:10:10","slug":"folic-acid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/folic-acid\/","title":{"rendered":"Folic Acid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A B-vitamin needed for proper nucleic acid and amino acid metabolism.\u00a0 Folic acid plays a particularly critical role in the metabolism of the amino acid methionine; deficiency can result in a buildup of homocysteine &#8211; a harmful metabolite that&#8217;s a marker of cardiovascular disease risk.\u00a0 Adequate folic acid intake is particularly important during pregnancy,\u00a0for the prevention of neural tube defects.<\/p>\n<p>See: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/vitamins\/folic-acid.html\" target=\"_blank\">Folic Acid Information &amp; Benefits<\/a>&#8221; and the <a href=\"http:\/\/lpi.oregonstate.edu\/infocenter\/vitamins\/fa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Linus Pauling Institute\u00a0Micronutrient Information Center<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A B-vitamin needed for proper nucleic acid and amino acid metabolism.\u00a0 Folic acid plays a particularly critical role in the metabolism of the amino acid methionine; deficiency can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[150,446,447,520,694,976],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}