Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences

These are vital nutrients in your diet, especially at this stage when your immune system is weakened a bit.

Pregnancy is a stage that generates a lot of fatigue and major concerns, situations that have a negative effect on your defenses. Moreover, in these moments, your immune system is working at a slower pace, just to prevent your body from rejecting the baby. To cope with all these changes, trace elements will be your allies. Best of all, you do not need large quantities and are very easy to include in your daily diet.

Here are the most important trace elements and in which foods are:

Trace elements, functions and which foods are – the trace elements are:

Manganese Trace Elements:

• Allows better absorption of calcium and iron. Also plays a role in the development of the baby’s ear and is involved in reproductive functions.
• Food with manganese: cereals, spinach, wheat, corn, almonds, carrots, beets and soybeans.
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