GQ Jordan: The Postpartum Nutritional Advice Every Mother Needs to Hear
Motherkind
Zoe Blaskey
4.8 • 863 Ratings
🗓️ 4 June 2026
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Zoe sits down with nutritionist GQ Jordan to talk about the realities of pregnancy, postpartum recovery and the nutritional foundations that help mothers feel more like themselves again.
Drawing on both her professional expertise and personal experience as a mother expecting her second child, GQ shares practical, reassuring advice on everything from managing sugar cravings and energy crashes to recovering from birth, supporting your mental health and letting go of the pressure to do everything perfectly.
This is a conversation for any mother who feels tired, stretched thin, constantly reaching for sugar, or wondering why looking after herself feels so difficult.
💡 In this episode, you’ll learn:Why so many mothers experience brain fog, exhaustion and sugar cravings - and the simple nutritional shifts that can help
How to support your recovery after birth, including the key nutrients often overlooked in postpartum
Why "bounce back" culture is keeping mothers depleted, and what to focus on instead
The mindset shift that helps ambitious mothers care for themselves without guilt
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| 0:00.0 | What's your pillars when you're pregnant? |
| 0:01.8 | Scheduling in your nourishment. |
| 0:03.2 | Your body is going through so much. Have you felt sick? What did you do? It's giving yourself a bit of grace. Without enough rest, your hunger hormones are going to be impacted the next day. And what about postpartum? Your body needs to rebuild. Slowly but surely, you kind of get a bit brainwashed into thinking that you have to do everything. the post-natal period is so geared towards bounced back. |
| 0:24.4 | What are the worst? you kind of get a bit brainwashed into thinking that you have to do everything. |
| 0:24.2 | The postnatal period is so geared towards bounce back. |
| 0:26.2 | What are the worst fatty diets that you see? |
| 0:27.3 | So that's a bit of a red flag. |
| 0:27.9 | Absolutely. |
| 0:30.4 | We want to add things in, not take things away. |
| 0:32.8 | Brain fog and exhaustion. |
| 0:34.7 | Where does someone start? |
| 0:39.3 | It's worth kind of checking before it becomes a real issue, slowing down to speed off. |
| 0:41.6 | Hello, my loves and welcome to Motherkind. It is me, your host, Zoe. We are proudly sponsored |
| 0:46.6 | by Wild Nutrition's Women's Supplements, and I am so happy to be here with you today. Thank |
| 0:53.4 | you for pushing that little play button. This is the |
| 0:56.1 | show for you, the woman behind the mother. This is a place to exhale and focus on you for a moment. |
| 1:04.2 | This episode is with GQ Jordan, the women's health nutritionist who is currently pregnant |
| 1:08.5 | with her second baby. And she joins me with a rare |
| 1:11.9 | kind of honesty about what it actually takes to nourish yourself through pregnancy loss and |
| 1:18.9 | the depleting early years of motherhood so this is a conversation about energy hormones the quiet |
| 1:26.0 | exhaustion so many of us have learned just to live with. |
| 1:29.4 | GQ explains why your body after birth is rebuilding from a major event. |
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