15: Hormones & How to Have a Healthy Baby
The Wellness Mama Podcast
Katie Wells
4.7 • 3.9K Ratings
🗓️ 30 July 2014
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Chris Kresser is a licensed acupuncturist and practitioner of integrative medicine. He researched to find his own health answers after conventional medicine wasn’t able to help his chronic disease and he now works to help others improve their health and their lives through better nutrition and lifestyle.
I’ve always been incredibly impressed by Chris’ research and work and I quote him often. I am so excited to share his research and work with you in this episode. If you are “pregnant or may become pregnant” this episode is incredibly important for you!
Natural Fertility
Chris became especially interested in fertility and hormone health when he and his wife had trouble conceiving and his research led him to unconventional answers about diet, lifestyle and stress. They went on to conceive and have a healthy (and beautiful) daughter and it is now a mission for him to help other couples do the same.
Chris created a whole course on this and I highly recommend it. You can find out more about it here.
Resources we mention
- The Healthy Baby Code Course
- The little known (but crucial) difference between folate and folic acid – ChrisKresser.com
- Wellness Mama on Folate vs. Folic Acid
- Chris’ Podcast Episodes: On prebiotics-You Are What Your Bacteria Eat: The Importance of Feeding Your Microbiome and mercury in fish and liver detoxification.
- 5 Reasons Why Concerns About Mercury in Fish Are Misguided (Chris)
- Manage your Stress (Chris)
- How stress wreaks havoc on your gut – and what to do about it (Chris)
Does Pregnancy Diet Matter?
Chris talks about the developmental origins hypothesis, or the idea that the diet of the mother (and father) before pregnancy and during pregnancy (for the mother) have an impact on the lifelong health of the child.
He talks about some amazing statistics on how birth weight and health at birth correlates to risk of heart attack and other problems. Babies with low birth weight were at increased risks for these problems, but babies born with a healthy weight and at full term had a lower risk.
We also delve in to a subject that I find fascinating: the link between the mother’s
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, my name is Katie from WellnessMama.com and I'm so excited to be here today to talk |
| 0:22.9 | with Chris Cresser who writes at ChrisCresser.com and I've been a huge fan of his work in his website |
| 0:28.6 | for a really long time and especially recently his healthy baby code because there's so much research |
| 0:34.4 | about how important a mom's diet before enduring an after pregnancy or in Chris's such an expert |
| 0:40.3 | in this area. So welcome Chris and I would love for you to tell us a little bit about your |
| 0:44.3 | background. |
| 0:45.3 | Yeah, it's great to be here. Thanks Katie. Well, I got into this whole world of health |
| 0:52.2 | and wellness the same way a lot of people get into it, which is with my own struggles |
| 0:57.1 | and in a general sense, I dealt with a pretty serious chronic illness for about 10 years |
| 1:03.8 | that I eventually recovered from through a combination of nutrient dense diet and healthy |
| 1:10.4 | lifestyle, some smart supplementation, but more specifically as it relates to fertility |
| 1:16.8 | and nutrition for fertility and pregnancy, my wife and I started trying to conceive a few |
| 1:23.7 | years back I guess about five years ago and after about a year and a half of trying, |
| 1:29.2 | we hadn't been successful and I'm sure a lot of people listening to this or watching |
| 1:34.3 | this can relate to that. It's really frustrating especially for someone like me who is so interested |
| 1:40.0 | in health and you know, as a healthcare practitioner and helping other people with the same problem. |
| 1:45.2 | So I took a pretty deep dive into the scientific literature at that point to try to figure out |
| 1:51.5 | what was going on and piece together a strategy that would work for us to enable us to conceive |
| 1:58.8 | naturally. I mean, we were open to assisted reproductive technology if necessary, but we |
| 2:04.8 | wanted to really try to optimize our health so that our bodies could naturally conceive. |
| 2:12.9 | That was our first goal and fortunately we were able to do that. We have now a very healthy |
| 2:20.2 | daughter, Sylvie who just turned three last week and she's been the blessing of our lives |
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