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With your diet during pregnancy, you're programming your baby's DNA. And this is
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going to have an impact on your baby's development and on their future risk of
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disease. And there's a lot of pregnant moms who are eating a diet that's not
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giving them the nutrients their baby needs. This is not the mom's fault. This
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is the fault of our food system. This is the fault of society. And nobody's telling moms about this. And I wanted to
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create this guide to help parents navigate that food system and see easy things they can do to help their baby's
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development. And I know this because as a biochemist when I became pregnant I just went deep deep deep into the
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research and there are some main things that I learned. For example, 90% of moms
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are not getting enough choline during pregnancy. And choline is super important. It forms your baby's brain in
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the womb. So this is the amount of eggs that I ate per week during the 9 months of pregnancy because this is the
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simplest way to give enough choline to our baby. And then your baby needs no fructose during pregnancy. So sugar from
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dessert, from chocolate, from muffins, from cupcakes. Your baby needs none of this because if you have very high
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glucose levels during pregnancy, scientists have found that your baby's DNA will have epigenetic switches that
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are programming them towards having a higher vulnerability to develop diabetes, obesity, and psychiatric
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disorders. Next, this is basically the amount of protein that I needed to eat every single day in the third trimester
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of pregnancy. >> Yeah. because the studies show low protein diets lead to smaller babies and
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potentially this epigenetic programming of staying smaller throughout life. And it's findings like that that led me to
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create a plan and simple hacks for pregnant moms and we can talk about them. >> And then what does the research say
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about breastfeeding, exercise, caffeine, and also do you recommend that mothers take certain supplements?
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>> So this is what people need to know.