*The Real* Protein Requirements During Pregnancy, Gender Reveal & Pregnancy Updates
Optimal Protein Podcast with Vanessa Spina
Vanessa Spina
4.6 • 795 Ratings
🗓️ 14 September 2023
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Today's episode is all about what the actual protein requirements are during pregnancy according to the latest research. The episode kicks off with an update on my current pregnancy for the first half, complete with a gender reveal, how often I am eating, my protein intake, what happened to my blood glucose & appetite when I accidentally drank 2 cartons of sweetened almond milk and more!
39:00 Protein Requirements During Pregnancy: The Latest Research
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Optimal Protein Podcast. I'm Vanessa Spina. Hello, my friends. Welcome back to the podcast. I'm your host, Vanessa, and I'm so happy to be here with you all. Today, we are talking about protein requirements and recommendations during pregnancy, what they've been set at, what they should be set at, what they truly are, |
| 0:21.9 | and most importantly, what the research actually says about these requirements during pregnancy, |
| 0:29.5 | and it is very, very interesting. |
| 0:32.8 | So I'm also going to give you all a little update on how much protein I'm eating during this pregnancy, |
| 0:39.7 | how this pregnancy is going, what we are having. |
| 0:42.7 | I did announce it over on Instagram if we were having a girl or a boy. |
| 0:47.8 | So I wanted to share some updates with you all. |
| 0:50.0 | It's been a little while since I've done that. |
| 0:51.6 | If you would like to skip right to the protein requirements |
| 0:55.3 | during pregnancy, please check the show notes of this episode. I will timestamp it for you, |
| 1:01.4 | but it should be around the 35 minute mark. I won't take it personally. I know we have |
| 1:07.3 | busy lives, busy schedules. Sometimes you just got to get in and get out, get all the |
| 1:11.8 | information, and get out. So please feel free to skip ahead and just go right to the protein |
| 1:18.8 | recommendations during pregnancy. Now, before we jump into the episode, I want to tell you about a |
| 1:25.1 | very important nutrient that many of us are deficient in and not even aware of it. |
| 1:30.6 | And that nutrient is light and specifically red light. |
| 1:34.8 | I am so passionate and obsessed with the incredible amount of science behind red light therapy's ability to support our mitochondrial health. |
| 1:46.1 | Now, our mitochondria, as you probably know, are responsible for helping us to do pretty much everything in our bodies at the cellular |
| 1:52.4 | level. Now, when it comes to energy levels, our immunity, our skin health and beauty, and even our |
| 2:00.2 | metabolic health and fitness, So much is connected back to |
| 2:04.1 | our mitochondria's ability to function optimally. Now we talk on this podcast all the time about |
| 2:09.6 | different strategies from exercise, intermittent fasting, doing resistance training, and getting |
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