This week's episode is all about nutrition for fertility, pregnancy and breastfeeding. I answer common questions like:
What do you see as the biggest factor keeping women from getting pregnant these days? What one factor, if optimized, has the biggest effect on fertility?
How important is the father's nutritional status pre-conception? What should a man be eating to improve the chances of conception?
Do you recommend significantly different diets during the times a couple is trying to ...
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Some of you may have noticed that I've been teaching a course locally on nutrition for fertility, pregnancy and breastfeeding called Grow a Healthy Baby.
I'm excited to announce that Grow a Healthy Baby will soon be available as a home study course. But before I put the finishing touches on, I have a few questions for those of you who are trying to get pregnant or are currently pregnant or breastfeeding. Can ...
So far in this series we've focused on a new way of understanding diabesity as an autoimmune, inflammatory disorder, and we've looked in a general way at the underlying mechanisms (inflammation, genetics, environmental triggers and leaky gut) that contribute to diabesity.
Now that we've laid that foundation, we're going to take a closer look at some of those mechanisms. In this article, we'll discuss the three major dietary toxins that trigger diabesity:
Cereal grains (especially refined flour)
Omega-6 ...
In the last article we learned that type 2 diabetes (T2DM) is characterized by chronic inflammation. We also learned that while inflammation often precedes the development of obesity and T2DM, obesity and T2DM contribute to inflammation - creating a vicious cycle of metabolic damage.
In this article we're going to review the complex and sometimes murky relationship between body weight and type 2 diabetes. There's a strong association between obesity and T2DM in the scientific ...
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