Increasing Vitamin B3 — found in avocados, tomatoes, sweet potatoes, among others — in pregnant women diets lower the rates of birth defects in infants, a new study has shown.
The study, first published in The New England Journal of Medicine, revealed that the vitamin also known as niacin can prevent miscarriages and help compensate for defects in the body’s ability to make a molecule, called nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD).
