Episode 166, Danielle Walker

• 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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