Nourishing Generations: A Pregnancy and Lactation Nutrition Reference Manual
VItaminS. Minerals. the Unclassified.
What is this Book About?
Discover the true nutrient needs during pregnancy and lactation with the latest data from real women. This is crucial because a mother’s diet during these periods affects the intelligence, athletic ability, creativity, and health of her child and subsequent descendants. Poor diet of mothers negatively affects the gene pool and progression of the human race. This book covers the micronutrients, that is vitamins, minerals, and a few unclassified such as the amino acid glycine, or the glutathione molecule.
Vitamins and Minerals:
- Recommended Intake: Details on RDA/AI source data. Plus other recommendations from more recent science/other entities.
- Physiological Roles: Key roles during pregnancy/lactation.
- Nutrient Interactions: How deficiencies affect other nutrients.
Supplementation Insights:
- Effects of Supplements: As impactful as drugs.
- Recommendations: What to supplement, and what not to supplement.
- Dosages & Timing: Correct dosages and critical stages for supplementation and nutrient intake.
- Upper Limits & Dangers: Potential risks and adverse effects such as increased likelihood of autism from excess folic acid supplementation.
Other Topics Covered:
- Insights on genetic disease origins
- More than one nutrient can be the cause of anemia in pregnancy, and how iron supplementation causes oxidative stress.
- Prevent Pre-eclampsia & Low Birth Weight: What nutrients are lacking in these conditions.
- Epigenetics: Explore the lasting impact of diet on lifelong health and function of a child and how a mother can change her child’s epigenome.
- Obesity & Epigenetics: How diet changes during pregnancy can decrease obesity risks for the child.
Who is the best audience for this book?
- Nutrition Professionals
- Professionals in the area of pregnancy or lactation
- Midwives
- Doulas
- Doctors and Obgyns
- Nurses
- Professors in the field of nutrition
- Any mother who wants to be more informed about supplementation and diet and learn what nutrients she needs when during the period from pre-conception to the end of lactation.
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