Discover the breakthrough fertility and pregnancy diet and lifestyle plan based on brand-new genetic scienceWhether you're planning for pregnancy or are already expecting, this essential prenatal guide draws on the latest genetic research to give you a complete program of specific nutrition and environmental lifestyle changes to help you have a better baby. Written for parents everywhere, it contains a program created by two parents--a fertility-oriented physician and a nutrition expert--to reactivate their own fertility after age forty. The book is based on the emerging science of epigenetics, showing how you can change the way your environment interacts with your genes and affect which genes are expressed or "turned on." "The Better Baby Book" shares important steps you can take to improve preconception nutrition and reduce toxins in your home and your body to consciously get pregnant and help your baby be healthier, smarter, and stronger. This groundbreaking guide: Builds on the latest epigenetics research to help you produce a healthier, smarter, and happier baby with genes for lower risk of allergies, asthma, and developmental issuesShares a specific prescriptive program based on four principles: eating the right foods; taking the right supplements; detoxifying before, during, and after pregnancy; and using new techniques to consciously control maternal stressDemonstrates how a woman's health and her environment during pregnancy may have a much bigger lifelong impact on her child than was previously thoughtIncludes the authors' compelling story of developing the Better Baby Plan as they had their own better babies
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Acknowledgments vii Part One The Better Baby Plan 1 You Are a Cocreator: The Better Baby Plan 3 2 Road Map to a Healthy Pregnancy 16 Part Two The Better Baby Diet 3 Better Baby Building Blocks 29 4 What Not to Eat 41 5 Nourishing a Healthy Brain and Body 67 6 Fertility 118 7 Your Prenatal Supplement Regimen 128 8 Hormones and Pharmaceuticals 157 Part Three The Toxin Connection 9 How Mold Changes Your Pregnancy 167 10 Environmental Toxins 175 11 Endotoxins: The Toxins Produced inside You 185 12 How to Deal with Toxins 190 Part Four Preparing for Pregnancy and Birth 13 Detoxifying Your Body and Your Home 199 14 Autism 214 15 Reducing Stress for an Easier and Better Pregnancy 220 16 Does Intention Matter? 247 17 The Best Way to Welcome Baby: A Gentle Birth 250 18 Bringing It All Together 266 Index 273
