Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Great nutrition during pregnancy creates smarter kids with healthier nervous systems and better language skills, which leads to greater social success and career success.
Quote: "Expectant mothers should eat more oily fish and boost their intake of fatty acids like DHA, which are available in nutritional supplements." - Mike Adams, author of The 7 Laws of Nutrition.
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Fish oil supplements from Nordic Naturals, the Life Extension Foundation or other trusted sources. |
| REPPED: A new study from the US National Institutes of Health and Bristol University that questioned 11,875 pregnant women on their dietary habits found that eating more fish during pregnancy resulted in significant, measurable benefits to the communication skills and social standing of their children seven years later.
What you need to know - Mainstream View
Eating less than 12 oz. of seafood each week was found to result in a 48% increased risk of children ending up in the lowest group of demonstrated verbal intelligence. |
| Professor Robert Grimble, professor of nutrition at the University of Southampton
What you need to know - Alternative View
Nutrition during pregnancy has a powerful impact on the future behavior of children. "Problematic" behavior in children needs to be treated with diet, not drugs.
The mercury content of fish can be largely nullified by taking chlorella (a superfood supplement) or eating cilantro (a common culinary herb) during the meal that fish is consumed. |
Dr. Steven R. Gundry
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 There is also considerable evidence that the nausea common in early pregnancy is a protective mechanism to prevent women from consuming too many plant compounds during the early months of fetal development, when critical cells and organs are being formed.7 As a congenital heart surgeon, I know that all organs are fully formed two and one-half months into pregnancy. Isn't it amazing that most of the nausea of pregnancy suddenly resolves at about ten weeks' gestation? Coincidence? No, our autopilot is merely protecting the next generation of genes from plant toxins. |
Rick Levy and Lou Aronica
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 Suddenly, she gasped and said, "Pregnancy leads to death." I asked her to elaborate on this, and she told me her mother was seven months pregnant when she died. Since Erin was at the impressionable age of eleven, she linked the two events in her mind. She intertwined pregnancy and death and secreted this distorted "belief" in her subconscious from that day forward. Now this distortion was fueling her miscarriages because the subconscious mind has the important job of preserving our physical survival. |
Paula Begoun
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 As wonderful as pregnancy can be it's not automatically guaranteed that it will make hair grow in thicker or healthier. In many cases pregnancy causes hair loss. pregnancy focuses a large amount of the body's energy on taking care of the developing fetus and that priority can reduce or stop the hair's anagen or growth phase. When a hair falls out during the telogen or shedding phase of hair growth (it is natural to lose as many as 100 hairs a day), there is no new hair preparing to emerge and start the growth phase. |
Dr. Steven R. Gundry
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| Women who don't have enough fat stores to successfully carry a pregnancy to term without eating don't ovulate.11 Why waste an egg if those genes won't be delivered into the future? That's why very thin female athletes and many anorexic women can't get pregnant. What happens when a mother is undernourished during her pregnancy? Her infant will have hunger genes that are permanently upregulated, meaning they are turned on. And here's the amazing thing: the hunger genes of those children's children and grandchildren are similarly activated for life. |
David W. Grotto, RD, LDN
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 A randomized controlled trial of ginger to treat nausea and vomiting in pregnancy. Obstets & Gynecol. 2004;103:639-645.
Willets KE, Ekangaki A, Eden JA. Effect of ginger abstract on pregnancy-induced nausea: a randomized controlled trial. Australian and New Zealand } Obstetrics & Gyn. 2003;43:139-144.
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Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 All that insulin can overwhelm a woman's ovaries to the point where she stops producing progesterone, the hormone that is required to prepare the uterus for pregnancy and to maintain that pregnancy. What happens is that instead of progesterone, the ovaries begin to turn out excessive amounts of androgens or "masculine hormones." Mind you, we women want a little testosterone in our system to maintain a healthy sex drive, but too much androgen can be, as you might expect, rather unfeminine. |
Jack Challem
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 Women's moods are more likely to be influenced by some aspects of their biology, such as menstrual periods, pregnancy, postpregnancy, and menopause.
The many stresses in our lives lead to neuronutrient and neurotransmitter imbalances, which set the stage for chronic mood problems. But how many of us really think about the price we pay for all this stress? The next chapter looks at some of these stresses and how they blind us to their health consequences. |
Dr. Abram Hoffer, MD, FRCP (C) and Dr. Harold D. Foster, PhD
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 This applies particularly to fetal alcohol syndrome, where a metabolic derangement in the fetus is caused by a mother's use of alcohol during pregnancy. This can result in many physical and psychological disorders in the child. While prevention by abstaining from alcohol during pregnancy is an obvious solution to this problem, there appears to be no simple effective treatment.
However, Dr Hoffer has treated several of these children with success using a multivitamin program. A key in this treatment protocol is vitamin B-3. |
Dr. Steven R. Gundry
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| As a congenital heart surgeon, I know that all organs are fully formed two and one-half months into pregnancy. Isn't it amazing that most of the nausea of pregnancy suddenly resolves at about ten weeks' gestation? Coincidence? No, our autopilot is merely protecting the next generation of genes from plant toxins.
Hormesis explains why people who eat a primarily vegetable diet tend to be shorter, reach menarche later, and live longer.8 The stress of battling plant poisons causes genes to send out a signal to lie low until things improve. |
Mary-Ann Shearer
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 I followed your principles and advice for preparing for pregnancy. I had a wonderful pregnancy—loved it all—and such a special home birth with no problems at all and breast-feeding has been easy.
I used to have really bad periods and I know that all steps of my pregnancy would have been awful if not for your teachings. So many of our friends and family members have since also been blessed and inspired by the information in your books and tapes!
Best of all, our little Victoria Grace is so happy and healthy and such a joy to us! God is so good! |
Rick Levy and Lou Aronica
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| She intertwined pregnancy and death and secreted this distorted "belief" in her subconscious from that day forward. Now this distortion was fueling her miscarriages because the subconscious mind has the important job of preserving our physical survival.
As soon as Erin found this distortion under hypnosis, she released it quickly (we'll discuss how this happens later in the book), breaking the link between these two concepts. At this point, the unfortunate connection she'd created between pregnancy and death could no longer do her physical harm. |
John A. McDougall
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 Pregnancy: Although pregnancy is a normal, healthy stage in a woman's life, many women become constipated as a result of the diet they are encouraged to adopt during pregnancy. Expectant mothers are often instructed to drink at least four glasses of milk a day and eat plenty of protein in the form of meat. You are about to learn why this is a prescription for constipation. inflammation of the bowel, anal fissures, and pain, were all resolved as well with the elimination of cow's milk. |
Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 Investigators employed 3IP nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy to noninvasively measure the level of magnesium in the brain and skeletal muscle of twelve fasting nonpregnant women, eleven women in the third trimester of pregnancy, and seven women with pre-eclampsia. Compared with the nonpregnant controls, brain and muscle magnesium levels were lower both in those who were pregnant and those who had developed incuba-tional (during pregnancy) pre-eclampsia. Women in the preeclampsia group had the lowest levels. |
Mary-Ann Shearer
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| Jacqui
(Jacqui went on to have a healthy pregnancy and is raising her child on Perfect Health.)
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Hi Mary-Ann and Family,
I want to say thank you for all your wonderful research, advice, and mentoring.
My husband and I have been learning about and working toward health for the past three years now—and you have been such an inspiration to us. I followed your principles and advice for preparing for pregnancy. I had a wonderful pregnancy—loved it all—and such a special home birth with no problems at all and breast-feeding has been easy. |
C. W. Randolph, M.D.
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 Supports the growth and function of the uterus, specifically creating the lining of the uterus to prepare it for pregnancy.
• Stimulates cell growth.
During these same years, progesterone does the following:
• Maintains the uterus and prepares it for pregnancy during the reproductive years.
• Promotes the survival of an ovum (egg) once it is fertilized.
• Stimulates bone building that can prevent or treat osteoporosis.
• Acts as a natural diuretic to prevent bloating.
In women and men, progesterone also does the following:
• Serves as a natural antidepressant. |
John A. McDougall
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| Pregnancy: Although pregnancy is a normal, healthy stage in a woman's life, many women become constipated as a result of the diet they are encouraged to adopt during pregnancy. Expectant mothers are often instructed to drink at least four glasses of milk a day and eat plenty of protein in the form of meat. You are about to learn why this is a prescription for constipation. inflammation of the bowel, anal fissures, and pain, were all resolved as well with the elimination of cow's milk. |
Charles Barber
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 Mothers in England who consumed little fish during pregnancy experienced dramatically higher rates of postpartum depression than women who ate fish regularly.24 Bernard Gesch, of the University of Oxford, enrolled prisoners in a study of diet. Half of the prisoners got a placebo; the other half got a diet rich with vitamins and fish like salmon. For the inmates with the better diet, the assaults and other disciplinary violations went down by a third, over time. |
Herbert Ross, DC with Keri Brenner, L.Ac.
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 Supplementing with minerals is a good choice for treating insomnia during pregnancy, when women need to avoid taking drugs and must also be careful with herbal supplements.
That night, Lynn fell asleep within 20 minutes without any medications, which was an unusually short time for her, and she slept for 4 hours straight. Thereafter, Lynn slept through the night, aided by the herbs and supplements and, initially, acupuncture treatments three times a week. After the first few weeks, Lynn continued once-a-week acupuncture treatments until her baby was born. |
Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
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 THE TEETH
Although we may seem to be born toothless, the development of our teeth is well underway by the third month of pregnancy. After birth, the teeth do not begin to erupt through the gums until about six or seven months of age. Most children have a full set of twenty teeth by the age of three. The process of shedding these primary teeth and replacing them begins at about the age of five or six and continues through the elementary school years until there are twenty-eight adult, permanent teeth. |
Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D.
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 Granted, nothing could be more distracting than a baby, and not every patient with chronic pain or fatigue will find herself prepared for pregnancy and childbirth. But the good news is that far less intense activities, and even training your mind to think pleasant thoughts, really can free you from the shackles of thinking only about your symptoms. The bottom line is to "accentuate the positive and eliminate the negative." Think of a few of your favorite things!
Illness is disempowering. |
| Family doctors have very broad training that prepares them to help patients with common conditions such as lacerations, colds, and pregnancy. Internists, in contrast, receive a more focused education in medical problems with no further training in surgery or obstetrics at all. Finding a good internist is simple. Ask your friends, call the department of medicine in your neighborhood hospital, or look in the yellow pages for a doctor who has accreditation—that is, who is "board certified"—in internal medicine. |
Mark Schapiro
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 Delaware, who explained that the procedure is much like a pregnancy test, with a twist.24 Each truck that pulls into a grain elevator waits before unloading, while a huge automated snout sucks up grain from different parts of the truck. The three or four samples from each load are suctioned back to a lab in the elevator, where they're combined, ground, and mixed with water. A technician drops a Strategic Diagnostics-designed dipstick—it's called a lateral flow strip —into the sample. "In five minutes," Kimbale said, "it tells you right there whether it's positive or negative. |
Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
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| However, check with your physician before taking any products during pregnancy.
The most common side effect of caffeine is probably the caffeine-withdrawal syndrome, in which symptoms of nervousness, headache, nausea, and muscle tension develop about twelve to twenty-four hours after the last ingestion of caffeine. These withdrawal symptoms are at their most severe during the second day of caffeine withdrawal and can continue for up to a week. |
Mark Hyman, M.D.
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 But the pregnancy faltered, and only nineteen weeks later one of the babies died. In a twin pregnancy, if one child dies, the surviving fetus and the mother are in danger. Half the doctors we saw advised us to terminate the pregnancy, the other half thought we might have a safe delivery. After a great deal of soul searching, we decided that we were meant to have this child, and should give it a go. But five weeks later Siobhan became very ill and was transported to a high-risk obstetrics unit, where the doctors prepared her for a premature delivery. |
Ray D. Strand
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 Women must avoid vitamin A supplementation during pregnancy. Dosages as low as 5,000-10,000 IU are believed to have caused birth defects.10
I never recommend taking straight vitamin A in supplements. We can meet the need for vitamin A within the body by simply taking beta-carotene and the mixed carotenoids. These are very safe, and the body is able to turn beta-carotene into vitamin A as the need arises without any risk of toxicity.
Beta-Carotene
Beta-carotene has been used in high doses over several years without a single reported adverse effect. |
Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D.
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| It's a prescription vitamin usually used during pregnancy, so it is very complete. It's not gender-specific, so it's fine for men too.
Although you can switch from red meat to fowl and then to fish, you probably should try to stick with only one major food source for at least a week, allowing yourself red meat on the last day of the week. The simpler and more consistent your food intake is from day to day, the easier it will be to figure out if any of these food restrictions has an effect on your symptoms. |
Mark Schapiro
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| Gray reported that female rats fed phthalates during pregnancy gave birth to a significantly high rate of male pups with incompletely descended testes and with an otherwise rare condition known as hypospadias—in layman's terms, an opening of the penis elsewhere than on the tip of the shaft.2 Both are symptoms of lower than normal testosterone. Scientists, Gray said, had begun calling the deformations they were seeing in the reproductive systems of male mice the "phthalate syndrome," including lower testosterone levels, altered growth of the testes, and lower sperm counts. Dr. |
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