S4 EP8: Nutrition: Before, During & After Pregnancy
The Thick Thighs Save Lives Podcast
Constantly Varied Gear
4.9 • 724 Ratings
🗓️ 3 November 2020
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
In today’s episode of Thick Thighs Save Lives, we’re discussing pregnancy and postpartum nutrition. Guest Alasen Zarndt joins the podcast to talk about her work as a nutrition doula. Listen in to hear what Alasen has to say about how cortisol levels affect your health during pregnancy and postpartum, what you should be eating postpartum, and how to find time for nutrition and exercise when you have small children.
Topics Discussed in Today’s Episode:
- The Nutrition Doula
- Nutrition during pregnancy
- How cortisol levels during pregnancy affect your health
- Steps that women can take to help bounce back from childbirth faster
- Examples of post-partum recovery foods
- Dieting post-partum
- Tips for finding time for nutrition and gym with children under 5
- Why a one-size-fits-all approach isn’t appropriate
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| 0:00.0 | When our cortisol levels are high, what our bodies are doing is they think that there's some kind of stress going on, like a saber-tooth tiger is going to come out of the woods and attack us, right? |
| 0:09.1 | And so your body is smart and it knows that I don't need to be able to digest this food right now. |
| 0:15.5 | I don't need to be able to reproduce right now. |
| 0:18.1 | All these things are not as important as me getting away from this tiger, |
| 0:21.7 | right? So it changes your hormone makeup so that you are, your blood pressure is high, |
| 0:28.5 | you're just ready for that fight or flight response. You're ready to fight something. The problem is, |
| 0:32.8 | is that when those cortisol levels are chronically high like that, we're constantly stressed, |
| 0:36.5 | and there isn't, in fact, a saber-tooth tiger around. What's meant to that, we're constantly stressed, and there isn't, |
| 0:37.7 | in fact, a saber-tooth tiger around. What's meant to happen is we're supposed to go run away from |
| 0:42.3 | the tiger and survive, and then, whew, we're safe. And we shift back into the rest and digest |
| 0:49.2 | state of hormones. So we turn back on those digestion functions, those reproduction functions, |
| 0:55.8 | all that stuff that's considered secondary when you're trying to run away from the tiger. |
| 0:59.3 | But in modern society right now, we never get away from the tiger. |
| 1:07.5 | The big question is this. In a world of fake Instagram models and fad diets, how do real people achieve their fitness goals? |
| 1:18.6 | We are an army of hardworking women, changing their lives through fitness and health. |
| 1:25.6 | Wherever you are at on your journey, we have the answers to how to make working out |
| 1:32.0 | and eating well a part of your life. |
| 1:35.7 | Join us in changing the dialogue for women everywhere. |
| 1:39.6 | Welcome to the Thick Thighs Save Lives podcast. |
| 1:45.5 | Hello everyone and welcome back to the Thick Thighs Save Lives Podcast. Hello, everyone, and welcome back to the Thick Thigh Save Lives podcast. |
| 1:49.6 | I'm Kelsey. |
| 1:50.7 | I'm Rachel, and we have a great guest for you today. |
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