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🗓️ 29 January 2024
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Lily Nichols is a Registered Dietitian/Nutritionist, Certified Diabetes Educator, researcher, and author. She discusses how to combine ancestral knowledge and evidence-based prenatal nutrition to support healthy pregnancies with Dr. Anthony Gustin.
Lily’s first bestselling book, Real Food for Gestational Diabetes, dives into why a nutrient-dense, lower-carb approach works for women worried about or managing gestational diabetes.
Her second book, Real Food for Pregnancy, is the most comprehensive text on prenatal nutrition to date — with nearly 1,000 citations that challenge conventional prenatal nutrition guidelines and confirm what our ancestors have known for generations.
Tune into the episode to hear Lily and Dr. Gustin chat about:
What inspired Lily to take this path (in a roundabout way)
What’s wrong with the current prenatal/postnatal nutrition guidelines
Foods women should be adding/avoiding during pregnancy
How hormone changes may influence pregnancy cravings (and aversions)
The “interpregnancy interval” and how long to wait between kids
The best prenatal supplements to help cover nutrient gaps
Raw eggs, seafood, saunas, cold plunges, and more!
Resources mentioned in this episode:
Lily Nichols’ website: LilyNicholsRDN.com
Lily’s books: Real Food for Pregnancy: The Science and Wisdom of Optimal Prenatal Nutrition and Real Food for Gestational Diabetes: An Effective Alternative to the Conventional Nutrition Approach
Lily’s Instagram: @LilyNicholsRDN
FullWell Prenatal Multivitamins and Seeking Health Prenatal Vitamins (for men and women)
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0:36.0 | Today I feel super lucky to have a conversation with Lily Nichols, |
0:41.0 | who is someone who I've married for a long time. |
0:43.6 | She has been combining a lot of ancestral knowledge around nutrition and health |
0:48.5 | and really focused it on pregnancy and has helped a lot of women with fertility, getting pregnant, post-natal, the whole thing. |
0:56.4 | And she wrote a couple of books. |
0:57.4 | She focused initially on gestational diabetes that switched more to real food for pregnancy which is a book that she is known |
1:05.9 | very well for and she is just a tremendous amount of work and she's a new book |
1:10.8 | coming out which we'll have around again for but talked to her about the many many thousands of |
1:16.4 | Citations that she's had also bringing in a lot of core principles around ancestral health and philosophy that I really agree with. |
1:22.6 | So as my wife and I started doing our own family planning, |
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