How To Not Get Sick And Die Eating for Two: How Choline, Iodine, and Folate Shape Your Baby's Brain Development with Lily Nichols | EP 449
Apr 1, 2025
01:02:08
Are you getting the right nutritional advice during pregnancy for you and your growing baby? This episode features pregnancy nutrition expert Lily Nichols, who challenges conventional prenatal nutrition guidelines and reveals why they're decades behind current research. Discover the critical nutrients most pregnant women are missing and how to optimize your diet for the healthiest possible pregnancy.
Key Highlights:
- Conventional prenatal nutrition focuses on what to avoid, not what's beneficial
- Why the 17-year gap between research and clinical practice hurts mothers
- Vitamin A in pregnancy – is liver really dangerous?
- The choline revelation most prenatal vitamins and doctors completely overlook
- How fish consumption during pregnancy affects baby's brain development
- How mercury concerns are overblown when selenium is present in seafood
- The leading preventable cause of intellectual disability worldwide
- Why first trimester morning sickness doesn't doom your baby's development
- The folate versus folic acid debate and why your MTHFR status matters
- Why vegetarian and vegan pregnancies present serious nutritional challenges
- The game-changing breakfast habit that transforms energy levels and cravings
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Music: Tropic Love by "Diviners feat. Contacreast"