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Folate deficiency was first discovered by Lucy Wills, an English hematologist, in 1931. While conducting seminal work in India in the late 1920s and early 1930s on [[macrocytic anemia]] of pregnancy, she found that this nutrient was needed to prevent the anemia of pregnancy. Dr. Wills demonstrated that this condition could be reversed with brewer's yeast. It was in the later 1930’s that folate, the naturally occuring form of folic acid, was isolated from brewer's yeast and folic acid was identified in the pathogenesis of anemia in pregnant women. | |||
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Folate deficiency was first discovered by Lucy Wills, an English hematologist, in 1931. While conducting seminal work in India in the late 1920s and early 1930s on macrocytic anemia of pregnancy, she found that this nutrient was needed to prevent the anemia of pregnancy. Dr. Wills demonstrated that this condition could be reversed with brewer's yeast. It was in the later 1930’s that folate, the naturally occuring form of folic acid, was isolated from brewer's yeast and folic acid was identified in the pathogenesis of anemia in pregnant women.