Hi, I'm Zibi Owens, and you're listening to Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books.

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Dr. Darya Long Gillespie is known popularly as Dr. Darya.

She trained at Yale and Harvard Medical School before becoming an instructor of medicine at Harvard Medical School.

She is a frequent contributor on CNN, Fox News, the Dr. Oz Show, and the doctors, among others.

She also writes the busy woman's guide to Health and Sanity for the Huffington Post and writes for other publications like Share.com and the Dr. Oz blog.

Dr. Darya's new book is called Mom Hacks, 100 plus science-backed shortcuts to reclaim your body,

raise awesome kids, and be unstoppable. She currently lives in Atlanta, Georgia, with her husband,

a renowned hand surgeon, and her two children.

Welcome, Dr. Darya. I'm so excited to have you on

moms don't have time to read books. Thank you, Zibbe. I am honored to be here. So in your introduction

to mom hacks, which I loved, you say that when you found some startling facts about mother's help,

you became really worried for moms. You cited that a mom's risk of obesity rises 7% for every child she has,

that moms are statistically more likely to have poor nutrition, get less exercise, have what you

said was way less sleep, and face alarmingly increasing rates of pregnancy-related complications

in death in the United States. So tell me, is this actually what led you to write the book,

or how did the whole thing happen? So you are exactly right. Those statistics were pretty shocking,

and it's right, 7% increase of metabolic syndrome, which isn't just obesity. It's also cholesterol

and high blood pressure for every child they have, which is crazy to me. But Zibi, I'm going to take it a step

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