Ensuring Optimal Vitamin D Levels for You and Your Baby

Pregnancy Podcast

Vanessa Merten

Parenting, Kids & Family

4.5 • 970 Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Vitamin D is sometimes referred to as a hormone because the activated forms are hormones. You utilize this essential vitamin in nearly all parts of your body. Vitamin D is crucial for absorbing other nutrients like calcium, iron, magnesium, phosphate, and zinc. Vitamin D also regulates immune function, cell growth, neuromuscular function and affects thousands of genes. Your baby relies on you to supply adequate vitamin D to support their growth and development during pregnancy. Despite the importance of vitamin D, data shows that most pregnant mothers do not get enough vitamin D. Deficiency is associated with elevated risks for preeclampsia, adverse health outcomes for your child later in life, and even a cesarean section. Most prenatal vitamins contain far less vitamin D than the evidence suggests during pregnancy. Find out what the current evidence says about vitamin D during pregnancy and how to ensure you have optimal vitamin D levels to support you and your baby.

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0:00.0	You are listening to the pregnancy podcast with Vanessa Merton.
0:10.0	Hello, thank you for tuning into the pregnancy podcast. In today's episode, we're talking
0:16.4	about Vitamin D. Although we call this a vitamin, it's often referred to as a hormone because
0:22.0	the activated forms of it are hormones.
0:25.0	You use this essential vitamin in nearly all parts of your body.
0:29.6	Vitamin D is critical for absorbing other nutrients like calcium, iron, magnesium, phosphate, and zinc.
0:36.7	It also regulates your immune function, cell growth, neuromuscular function, and affects thousands of genes. And when you're pregnant your baby relies on you to supply them with adequate vitamin D, which they need to support their growth and development.
0:52.0	Despite all of the importance of vitamin D, to support their growth and development.
0:52.6	Despite all of the importance of Vitamin D,
0:55.3	data shows that most pregnant mothers are not getting enough.
0:59.4	Vitamin D deficiency is associated with higher risks for pre-Eclamsia, adverse health outcomes for your child
1:06.7	later in life, and even Cessarian section. Most prenatal vitamins contain far less vitamin D than the evidence suggests during pregnancy.
1:16.0	So in this episode we're going to really dig into the current evidence on vitamin D during pregnancy
1:22.0	and go through how to make sure that you have enough
1:25.2	Vitamin D to support you and your baby.
1:28.5	You can find the complete article and all of the resources and links for this episode at pregnancy podcast.com
1:36.7	slash vitamin D. Right now you can try pregnancy podcast premium for free for seven days and when you do that
1:46.1	you're going to get a free copy of the Your Birth Plan book.
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