94: What To Eat For A Healthy Pregnancy | Lily Nichols, RDN How To Be WellnStrong podcast

94: What to Eat for a Healthy Pregnancy | Lily Nichols, RDN

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Join me as I sit down with Lily Nichols, a renowned Registered Dietitian and author, to explore the essential nutrients for fertility, preconception, and pregnancy. Drawing from her books, "Real Food for Pregnancy" and "Real Food for Gestational Diabetes," Lily debunks common nutrition myths and highlights the importance of protein, organ meats, and key vitamins for embryo development. We discuss how to optimize fertility, especially for women with PCOS, and why managing blood sugar is vital for a healthy pregnancy. Lily also shares the ideal nutrition plan for preconception and pregnancy, how modern diets are affecting fertility, and offers her thoughts on how to choose the best prenatal supplements. We also discuss the crucial differences between folic acid and folate, and which one you should be taking. If maximizing fertility is your goal, this episode is for you!

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Chapters

1. Supplements for managing blood sugar (00:00:00)

2. The importance of blood sugar management in pregnancy (00:00:49)

3. Key nutrients for prenatal diets (00:04:44)

4. Protein powders: yay or nay? (00:08:35)

5. How to optimize fertility with nutrition (00:12:43)

6. Understanding insulin resistance (00:29:31)

7. How to choose the right prenatal vitamin (00:35:58)

8. Understanding MTHFR and its impact on folate supplementation (00:40:27)

9. Additional supplements to consider during preconception & pregnancy (00:47:42)

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