Jessie Inchauspé: 90% of Pregnant People Are Missing THIS Nutrient (Follow THIS Simple Diet To Reduce Glucose Spikes & Protect Your Baby’s Brain & Metabolism)
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
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4.7 • 30.5K Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2026
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Pregnancy only lasts nine months, but what you eat during that time can shape your child for life.
Jay Shetty welcomes back biochemist, bestselling author, and “Glucose Goddess” Jessie Inchauspé for a conversation that goes even deeper into the impact she’s had on millions of lives. This time, they focus on something few people truly understand: pregnancy isn’t just a waiting period, it’s a critical window that can shape a child’s physical, mental, and metabolic health for life. Jay and Jessie unpack why so many parents feel under-informed, how outdated myths like “eat for two” still dominate the conversation, and what the science actually reveals about the nine months that truly count forever.
Jessie breaks down complex biology into simple, actionable insights. She explains how key factors: blood sugar balance, protein, choline, and omega-3s play a critical role in brain development, metabolism, and long-term disease risk for your child. Jay guides the conversation with curiosity and care, highlighting how small, intentional shifts during pregnancy can create lifelong resilience, while also acknowledging the systemic failures that leave parents without clear guidance or support.
In this interview, you'll learn:
How to Support Your Baby’s Brain With Just Four Key Nutrients
How to Reduce Blood Sugar Spikes That Affect Your Baby
How to Build Your Baby’s Brain Before They’re Born
How to Lower Your Child’s Lifetime Risk of Diabetes
How to Use Protein to Stabilize Energy and Nausea
How to Care for Your Mental Health After Miscarriage
How to Make Small Food Choices That Create Lifelong Impact
Life doesn’t come with a manual, we’re all doing the best we can with the information we have. When we learn more, we can make better choices, not just for ourselves, but for the people whose futures depend on ours.
Jessie’s latest book, 9 Months That Count Forever: How Your Pregnancy Diet Shapes Your Baby's Future, is available for pre-order now. Visit https://www.amazon.com/Months-That-Count-Forever-Pregnancy/dp/1668219123
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Jay Shetty
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What We Discuss:
00:00 Intro
01:54 Debunking the Biggest Pregnancy Myths
04:50 The Four Nutrients That Shape Your Baby’s Future
07:26 How Gestational Diabetes Impacts a Child for Life
11:58 How Much Protein Do You Really Need During Pregnancy?
14:22 What an Ideal Pregnancy Diet Actually Looks Like
19:08 Are You Actually “Eating for Two?”
21:41 You’re Born With the Brain Cells You’ll Keep for Life
24:29 When Food and Supplements Work Best Together
27:02 Avoid These Foods During Pregnancy!
31:28 How High Sugar Intake Affects Pregnancy
36:07 The Modern Food System Is Failing Families
39:03 What Can Contribute to Miscarriage
41:15 Understanding Silent Miscarriage
46:21 Processing the Grief of Pregnancy Loss
49:02 The Most Common Causes of Miscarriage
51:42 What Happens When You Eat Sugar on an Empty Stomach
54:24 The Importance of Movement During Pregnancy
57:09 How to Reduce Bloating During Pregnancy
57:44 Does a Father’s Diet Affect Conception?
59:01 Using Food to Set Your Child Up for Life
01:01:20 What the UK Sugar Ration Taught Us About Health
01:04:33 This or That: Pregnancy Edition
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast, guaranteed human. And so 90% of mothers today are eating a diet that is not |
| 0:10.3 | giving them the right nutrients for their baby to grow. Your diet during pregnancy is calibrating things in |
| 0:17.3 | your child. It's setting his metabolism, the number of brain cells he has. It's setting |
| 0:23.6 | his resilience or his sensitivity to disease. |
| 0:26.6 | Hey everyone, welcome back to On Purpose, the place you come to become the happier, healthier, and more healed. |
| 0:33.6 | Today's guest is us welcoming back one of your favorites. When she came on the show last time, |
| 0:40.1 | she absolutely made an impact on each and every one of you. I know so many of you commented, |
| 0:44.7 | shared, and messaged in saying how much her advice has changed your life. She's changed my |
| 0:49.9 | life for the better, my wife's, our parents, everyone that we know when we've been talking about |
| 0:54.4 | her advice, today I'm talking again to the one and only glucose goddess, biochemist, bestselling |
| 1:00.5 | author and viral science teacher Jesse Inchopje, whose work reaches millions of people around |
| 1:06.6 | the world and has transformed how we think about food and health. Jesse is here to talk about her new |
| 1:12.7 | book, Nine Months That Count Forever, How Your Pregnancy Diet Shapes Your Baby's Future, releasing |
| 1:19.7 | March 17th. If you haven't already ordered it, make sure you get it right now as you're listening |
| 1:25.2 | to this conversation. If you're expecting or hope to be one day, |
| 1:29.4 | the science back guide reveals how what you eat during pregnancy doesn't just affect you. It can |
| 1:36.1 | shape your child's health for a lifetime. Please welcome back to On Purpose, Jesse. Jesse, it is so |
| 1:42.0 | great to have you back. Thank you so much for having me back, Jake. And thank you for calling me a science teacher. That makes me happy. I mean, your resume is amazing, but you're a dear friend. And, you know, last time you came on, we were just getting to know each other, and we hit off so well. We just ended up hanging out and talking and this book I know means so much to you, and it's been such an incredible journey for you you were just |
| 2:02.2 | showing me a beautiful video of your baby boy and this journey is one that I don't think it's talked |
| 2:08.3 | about enough and as a man who will never get pregnant and not experience what it feels like I've |
| 2:13.7 | definitely seen how so many of my friends feel misinformed, so many feel under-informed, |
| 2:19.6 | so many feel misled. But the biggest thing I think that I want to start with is so many people |
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