Welcome to the Nutrition Science Podcast, where we help you cut through the noise and make informed

science-based decisions about nutrition and your help. Welcome back to another episode of the

Nutrition Science podcast. Today, I have my good friend Dr. Jessica Nurek on the show to talk about

pregnancy and postpartum nutrition, and this is a value-packed episode. Jessica is a researcher,

speaker, and mom to a four-year-old son and a one-year-old daughter. She's a registered

dietitian with a Ph.D. in physical activity, nutrition and wellness, which she got from

Arizona State. That's where we met. We got our PhDs together, and she spent the last decade

working on the wellness side of health care in the research lab in clinical care and with innovative

medical tech startups. Due to this experience, Jessica has come to realize that the prenatal

and postpartum nutrition and health guidelines are often confusing, outdated, or sometimes

non-existent, and she's become really passionate about helping women understand

evidence-based prenatal and postnatal nutrition and health guidelines and educating women.

And she's done a really good job of that through her social media channels.

She's on TikTok. She's built a pretty big following over there.

Her following is growing pretty quickly on Instagram as well. So I highly recommend checking her out on TikTok. She's built a pretty big following over there. Her following's growing pretty

quickly on Instagram as well. So I highly recommend checking her out on those channels. I'll put the

links to those in the show notes. Also, during this discussion, we go into a little bit of detail

about nutrients that are important for pregnancy. As you'll hear during the talk, I encourage Jessica to put together a guide,

and she has done so.

So she's put together a comprehensive guide of the important nutrients that are specific to pregnant

women and how to get them and also how to find supplements to meet your needs of those

particular nutrients if needed.

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