Real Talk, Whole Life Episode 166, Danielle Walker
Oct 22, 2015
01:14:48
- Intro (0:00)
- News and Views (0:56)
- Sarah is working on submitting her book and getting it off to the printer
- Stacy's favorite person in paleo, and long-time guest on The Paleo View (episode 42 and 109), is here as a guest on this week's show - welcome Danielle Walker!
- Danielle had a baby recently and will be helping to answer a number of questions related to pregnancy, newborns, and breastfeeding
- You can find more on Danielle on her site, Against All Grain, she has a popular YouTube channel, and is a New York Times Bestselling Author of Against All Grain and Meals Made Simple - and she is currently working on a third book
- What brought Danielle to blogging
- Danielle's number one job is being a mom, find out more about her kids here
- The difference in Danielle's pregnancies
- Fulfilling pregnancy cravings in a way that supports your health, but also makes you feel normal
- Why people experience a shift in the immune system when they are pregnant - some experience a remission and others experience flairs, with the most major immune system shift happening when the baby weans
- How Danielle is managing her health during the postpartum phase to reduce the possibility of an autoimmune flair
- Sarah's recommendations on how to reduce the risk of a flair postpartum
- Uber focus on nutrient density - how and why the immune system is a nutrient gas guzzler, with the immune regulator being the most sensitive to nutrient deficiencies
- Get a lot of sleep - let go of perfection, and focus on basic needs
- Activity is great, but prioritize sleep
- Be aware of stress levels and triggers
- Danielle's protocol when she notices a flair
- Creating a personal list of foods that are automatic no items that cause issues, and the role that a food journal can play in helping you identify your problematic foods
- Milk production shifts around the 6 week marker and what is happening at a hormonal level that impacts that change in milk supply
- What Stacy experienced with her food intolerances while breastfeeding her boys and how that led her to elimination dieting
- Getting Calcium from Non-Dairy Sources (34:09)
- There is calcium in other foods, and in fact more absorbable calcium in other foods than the calcium in dairy - we absorb a much higher percentage of calcium from cruciferous vegetables than we do from the calcium in diary
- We need calcium to make breastmilk
- There is a collection of studies that looked at dairy consumption and long-term bone health and there is actually no correlation between dairy intake and bone health, if anything there is a slight negative correlation
- One study shows that the more dairy you consume the more likely you are to have bone health problems
- Studies show that the most important diet factor to bone health is vegetable consumption
- One of Stacy's favorite soup recipes is Danielle's Chicken and Vegetable Soup, which she finds as a convenient way to get vegetables and bone broth in
- What Danielle has noticed with the foods she is eating and how those impact Easton through breastmilk
- Supplementing Easton with a probiotic
- Checkout kellymom.com for great factual information on breastfeeding, and for community and support with all things lactation
- How and why antibodies from mom cross into breastmilk
- When you are nursing, your body will prioritize the food source for your child - your body will essentially take the nutrients you are not getting enough of from your reserves and pass them along to your child
- Top Foods Nursing Moms Should Eat (52:20)
- Protein
- Mineral rich foods (organ meats and vegetables like cruciferous vegetables)
- Vitamin D (fish and shellfish; pastured raised animals; grass-fed dairy; time out in the sun)
- Vitamin A (liver, egg yolks)
- Antioxidants (organ meat, high quality meats, lots of vegetables)
- How to get 5 servings of vegetables a day to optimize health
- As long as you are getting adequate animals foods and then piling on the vegetables, that is the best case scenario for your health
- Danielle's tips for incorporating healthy foods and healthy habits
- Making soup and adding in vegetables
- Putting vegetables in smoothies and adding collagen (Stacy adds Vital Proteins)
- Prepping ahead and using the crockpot, see this post for Danielle's recommended prep ahead recipes
- Accepting help
- More from Danielle on how she is doing and feeling being in the newborn stage
- Thank you so much Danielle for coming back on The Paleo View - and congratulations on Easton's arrival and thank you for being such a positive role model to so many in the community
- Be sure to find Danielle and all of her social media channels on her site HERE
- Thanks everyone for listening!
- Outro (1:13:28)
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