A customer Whole9 a mother-daughter duo, who are passionate about prenatal nutrition. Rydbom Emily CN, LE and Dr. Leslie Stein, the founder of Grow Baby ® and is the first article in a series about preconception health and prenatal Whole9.
Did you know that many women of indigenous cultures, such as the Kikuyu, South-African Bantu ethnic group in Kenya a special diet, six months before the wedding begin traditionally prepare for pregnancy? ¹
Research has shown that certain birth defects can be attributed to malnutrition before conception. ²
But it is not only the health of the mother that matters.
Prejudice nutrition
Gone are the days when we thought that women occupied a more important role in shaping men. Both men and women play an important role in the process of becoming pregnant, and contribute to the long-term health of the child within. Know now that without good nutrition and lifestyle management (including sleep, exercise and stress management) for men and women, reduce your chances of getting pregnant.
Made for men:
- Genes are directly responsible for the development of the placenta expressed from the parent responsible.
- Currently 5-10% of all infertility is stress, caused stress management is an integral part of the design. ³
- The average male sperm count fell by almost 50% between 1939-1990. The number of men with very low sperm has tripled and the number of men decreased with high values. ⁴
- Exposure to endocrine disruptors is a very real and present, affects the health of the issue of female and male fertility.
So, what are the men and women who are looking to improve their health before conception to do?
We have created a long list of things to avoid before pregnancy. After learning what to avoid, what to include and areas of basic life that deserve your attention, please share this article with others, you know who is considering or planning to become pregnant.
Foods, to avoid pre-pregnancy
There are many things that could damage the health of conception. Foods and substances that are listed below harmful to the body when consumed in excess, if you are pregnant or not. Should reduce their toxic load to improve our fertility, reproduction and overall health.
In order to improve the fertility and the long-term health of the baby, avoid the following 3-6 months before conception:
1) foods that interfere with health before pregnancy
These foods can reduce your nutrient reserves, and the cell damage and oxidative stress (inflammation). Living and breathing under the matter as damage to the cells. This is normal. But often there are foods / toxins / chemicals / specific lifestyle that increases the damage. Oxidative stress is the result of this damage, resulting in an imbalance between free radicals (damage) and antioxidant reserves (healing / balance). This stress is often manifested by inflammation.
- Eating refined white flour, white, white sugar ...
- Added sugar, especially in what we drink, such as soda, fruit drinks, tea, coffee, energy drinks and sports, as well as milkshakes
- Here is a list of natural and artificial sweeteners: agave syrup, sucrose, fructose, glucose syrup, brown rice milk sugar, xylitol, corn syrup, corn syrup, corn syrup, high fructose corn syrup, sorbitol, fructose, dextrose, evaporated cane juice, erythritol, NutraSweet ® (aspartame), Splenda ® (sucralose), acesulfame-K, Sweet One, Sunett, cakes N'Low ®, brown sugar, demerara sugar, stevia, invert sugar, maltodextrin, maltose, maple syrup, powdered sugar, cane sugar, fruit juice concentrate, honey, molasses , barley malt, sugar, coconut sugar, date sugar, sweets. ⁵
- Foods with high glycemic index
- Processed foods and everything. Artificial additives
- Fried foods
- Margarine (rich in trans-fatty acids)
- Trans Fats - increasing LDL (harmful) increases HDL (protective) cholesterol, increased triglycerides, and swelling; Even the U.S. FDA issued a statement that trans fats are "generally recognized as safe."
- Refined vegetable oils
2) Substances that interfere with the health before pregnancy
As for the above foods can decrease and the cell damage and inflammation, these substances should be avoided because they increase the amount of damage and imbalance in your body that takes their reproductive health of their nutrient reserves.
- Alcohol
- Drug users and Leisure
- Some medicines
- Consult your provider to ensure that you could all interfere with a fertile environment and health and design of your partner at risk do not take. (There are also some medications that can their ability to inhibit, to detoxify properly. The list is long, and it is important to recognize pharmaceutical products will interact with its ability to detox your body. Some of the common medications to your detoxification pathways include antidepressants, antihistamines, and benzodiazepines.)
Three.) Chemical and toxic exposure
- To avoid exposure to heavy metals such as mercury, cadmium and lead. (For an explanation of where the person average may be exposed to these things, if it be easier to add the apply.)
4). Too much stress
When it comes to stress, too little is not good, too much is not good (but most people who have too much stress or too little to know).
We know that healthy and balanced exposure to stress during pregnancy actually help the central nervous system of your babies grow sharply. So what is the result?
Stress is a necessary part of your hormonal process, but managed and out of balance, it can adrenal fatigue, chronic fatigue, depression, insomnia, inflammation, anxiety, and poor health of the cause fertility.
Did you know that in one study, 34% of infertile women after they know trained in a relaxation technique pregnant? ⁶
The dangers of endocrine disruptors and how to avoid them
Each of the items listed below is an endocrine disruptor. That is, a substance which alters the function and causes an imbalance or damage to one of the endocrine organs. There are many endocrine organs throughout the body, from head and ends in their reproductive organs like the ovaries and testes. In addition to the specific recommendations below what you should avoid eating a rainbow of foods daily.
Bisphenol A: BPA has to everything from breast cancer and other cancers in reproductive problems, obesity, premature puberty and heart disease associated.
According to government tests, 93% of Americans have BPA in their bodies.
- BPA in cash register receipts, most canned and plastic found.
- Avoid recycling label No. 7
- Eat a rainbow of foods every day - these foods contain phytochemicals that help in the detoxification of endocrine disruptors such as BPA.
Dioxin: Recent research has shown that exposure to low levels of dioxin shown in the first life in the womb and can also permanently affect sperm quality and sperm count in men in the early years to reduce the parenting.
- The American diet is contaminated, most animal products such as meat, eggs, dairy products and butter contain this chemical.
- Choose organic whenever possible.
Atrazine: Atrazine is widely used in the United States in the majority of maize and sorghum, and thus is not a ubiquitous dirty water. The researchers found that exposure to even small amounts (30X below the values that allows the Environmental Protection Agency) of the herbicide atrazine can produce male frogs into females viable eggs off completely. Recent studies have also found a possible link between birth defects and low birth weight, exposure to atrazine in utero.
- Buy a water filter certified to remove atrazine.
- Choose, if possible, organic.
Phthalates: Studies have linked phthalates to hormonal changes, a smaller sperm count, less motile sperm, birth defects of the reproductive tract irregularities, obesity, diabetes and thyroid male.
- Avoid recycling label No. 3
- The use of glass or stainless steel, as much as possible.
- Avoid body care products, phthalates as an ingredient.
Perchlorate competes with iodine and its role in the health of the thyroid These hormones regulate metabolism in adults and are essential for proper brain and organ development in infants and young children.
- Use a water filter, reverse osmosis.
- Include foods that are rich in iodine Update: algae, eggs, strawberries.
PBDE (flame retardant): In 1999, a group of Swedish researchers, the breast milk of women have something totally unexpected milk contains an endocrine disrupting chemicals in flame retardants found, discovered and had every five levels doubled 1972 years since these chemicals. can mimic thyroid hormones in the body and disrupt its activity. The disorder is associated with a lower IQ.
- Avoid foam padding.
- Be careful when replacing old carpet.
- Use a vacuum cleaner with a HEPA filter.
"Completely resistant to biodegradation" perfluorinated chemicals (PFOA). Did you know that 99% of Americans have PFOA in their bodies and an exhibition of PFOA have to be has been linked to decreased sperm quality in combination, low birth weight, kidney disease, thyroid disease and high cholesterol, among other health problems.
- Avoid non-stick pans.
- Avoid stain protection / water on the clothes, furniture and carpets.
Organophosphates: organophosphates can interfere with testosterone form that communicates with the cells. You can reduce testosterone and change levels of thyroid hormones. Spite of extensive studies, the exposure to the effects on brain development, behavior and fertility, organophosphate pesticides days are still among the most widely used today Today.
- Buying organic products whenever possible.
- Visit contain the site for the working environment for the latest products, the highest pesticide residues list.
Glycol ethers: A study of the results in rats have shown that the testicular shrinkage had the effect of exposure to glycol ethers. These chemicals "may impair fertility or fetus." Children who were exposed to glycol ethers paint their rooms had significantly more asthma and allergies.
- Avoid products with ingredients such as 2-butoxyethanol (EGBE) and methoxydiglycol (DEGME).
How to Avoid and heavy metals before pregnancy
Lead: Lead is harmful to almost all organ systems in the body and has been linked to a surprising number of health effects in conjunction hear permanent brain damage, IQ, loss, miscarriage, premature birth, increased pressure of blood, damage and problems with the nervous system to kidney . Lead can affect your body by disrupting hormones. In animals, lead has been found to reduce levels of sex hormones. Studies have also shown that children with a healthy diet ⁷ absorb less lead.
- Each day, choose healthy foods.
- Remove the old paint before repainting gently.
- Find a water filter that is certified to remove arsenic.
Loss / gain to mercury weight, atrophy of the protein, immunosuppression, insulin resistance, osteoporosis, high blood pressure atrophy and pregnant women are more susceptible to the relative toxicity of mercury is known as metal to concentrate. fetal brain and may interfere with brain development. ⁷
- Choose wild salmon, wild trout, wild fish.
- Avoid predatory fish such as shark and swordfish and tuna border
A healthy world before conception begins with the diet
You can your exposure to these toxins to reduce informed decisions. Adopt skills election, a coherent way. In the next part of this series, we will explain what foods are healthy are diet before pregnancy.
We work to optimize health for you, your family and the world. Our thinking is: (And Dad) = healthy mother healthy baby and a healthy world starts with the diet before conception and management of lifestyle ..
Have a happy and healthy day!
Rydbom and Emily M. Leslie Stein, Grow Baby ®
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