The Better Baby Book

David Asprey, Lana Asprey

Description

How to create a healthier, happier, smarter baby?the breakthrough pregnancy diet and lifestyle plan based on cutting-edge genetic science

Whether you're planning for pregnancy or are already pregnant, this essential prenatal guide draws on the latest genetic research to give you a complete program of specific nutrition and environmental lifestyle changes that can help you have a better baby. The book is based on the emerging science of epigenetics and shows how the environment interacts with your genes, affecting which genes are expressed or "turned on". It shows you the important steps you can take to improve preconception nutrition and reduce toxins in your home and body to consciously help your child be healthy, smart, and strong.

• Leverages the latest epigenetics research to help you produce a healthier, smarter, and happier baby with a lower risk of allergies, asthma, and developmental issues
• Shares a specific prescriptive program based on four principles: eating the right foods; taking the right supplements; detoxifying before, during, and after pregnancy; and minimizing stress
• Shows how a woman's health and her environment during pregnancy may have a much bigger impact on her child than was previously thought
• Includes the authors' compelling personal story of developing the Better Baby Plan shared in the book as they had their own better babies

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

Sujets

• Vie de famille
• Maternité
• Pregnacy
• Childbirth
• Health
• Fitness

Informations

• Publié par: Turner Publishing Company
• Date de parution: 18 décembre 2012
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781118236246
• Langue: English

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Contents
Cover
Title Page
Dedication
Copyright
Epigraph
Acknowledgments
Part One: The Better Baby Plan
Chapter 1: You Are a Cocreator: The Better Baby Plan
What Happens at Conception
Sending Your Baby Growth-Mode Messages
The Power of Epigenetics: Our DNA Is Not Set in Stone
More on Growth Mode and Defense Mode
Chapter 2: Road Map to a Healthy Pregnancy
Eat the Right Foods
Take the Right Supplements
Detoxify Your Body before, during, and after Pregnancy
Minimize Stress
Comparing Your Baby to Others
Before We Continue
Part Two: The Better Baby Diet
Chapter 3: Better Baby Building Blocks
What Bodies Are Made Of
What Brains Are Made Of
What Bodies Are Not Made Of
Chapter 4: What Not to Eat
Fried or Overcooked Food
Genetically Modified Foods
Unhealthy Fats
Sugar and Excess Carbohydrates
Chemical Flavor Enhancers
Most Grains
Yeast
Mushrooms
Pasteurized, Homogenized, or Conventional Dairy (Except Butter)
Caffeine and Decaffeinated Products
Garlic and Onions
Most Seafood
Cured and Precooked Meats
Certain Herbs
Canned Food
Old Food
Conventional Produce
Foods with Added Chemicals or Conditioners
Processed Foods
Chapter 5: Nourishing a Healthy Brain and Body
The Food Pyramid
Eggs
Coconut
Olives and Olive Oil
Meat and Butter from Grass-Fed Animals
Low-Mercury Fish
Vegetables and Low-Sugar Fruits
Nourishing Nuts
Collagen Keeps It All Together
The Only Good Soy Is Soy Lecithin
Cilantro
Ginger
White Rice
Whey Protein
Xylitol and Stevia
Dark Chocolate and Cocoa Butter
The Better Baby Book Nutrition Guidelines
Chapter 6: Fertility
L-Arginine and L-Ornithine
The Truth about Oral Contraceptives
The Importance of a Healthy Thyroid
Sickness and Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Fertility Treatment: Not Just for Women
Sex for Pregnancy
Chapter 7: Your Prenatal Supplement Regimen
How to Tell if a Supplement Is Useful and Safe
The Myth of a Prenatal Supplement
Multivitamins
Essential Vitamins
Essential Minerals
Probiotics
Krill or Fish Oil
Brain Nutrients
Antioxidants
Chapter 8: Hormones and Pharmaceuticals
Progesterone
Deprenyl
Oxiracetam
A Warning about Pharmaceuticals
Part Three: The Toxin Connection
Chapter 9: How Mold Changes Your Pregnancy
Toxins in Food
Types of Mycotoxins
Locations of Mycotoxins
Chapter 10: Environmental Toxins
Air Pollutants
Water Pollutants
Electromagnetic Fields
Chapter 11: Endotoxins: The Toxins Produced inside You
Chapter 12: How to Deal with Toxins
Activated Charcoal
Bentonite Clay
Chlorella
Cholestyramine
Drugs versus Supplements
Morning Sickness and Toxins
Part Four: Preparing for Pregnancy and Birth
Chapter 13: Detoxifying Your Body and Your Home
The Better Baby Diet
Heavy Metals and Chelation
Rejuvenating Your Liver
Detoxifying Your Home
Do Your Best
Chapter 14: Autism
Possible Causes of Autism
Heavy Metals
Age
Toxins
GI Tract Imbalance
Vitamin D3 Deficiency
Keep Up with the Information
Chapter 15: Reducing Stress for an Easier and Better Pregnancy
Stress and Fertility
Stress and Pregnancy
Where Does Stress Come From?
What to Do about Stress
Sleep
Exercise
Breathing Techniques ( Pranayama )
Meditation
Heart Rate Variability Training
Dealing with Travel
Addressing Jaw Tension
Lighting
Chapter 16: Does Intention Matter?
Chapter 17: The Best Way to Welcome Baby: A Gentle Birth
A Mother's Eyes
Self-Attachment
The Umbilical Cord
Water Birth
Caesarean Section
Home Birth: At Least as Safe as Hospital Birth
The Issue of Hospital Birth
Planning Birth at Home or in the Hospital
A European Perspective on Birth
Planning a Vaginal Birth after a Caesarian
Nursing
Vaccines
Chapter 18: Bringing It All Together
Getting the Right Stuff into Your Body
Detox Your Home and Skip the Nursery
Manage Stress
For Men
Your Beautiful Better Baby
Index

To our children, Anna and Alan, and their children, and so on
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Acknowledgments
We wrote this book because, after careful reflection, it seemed like the single best thing we could do to help the world be better. If parents learn what they can do to give their children better genes, their children will be stronger, smarter, and healthier—and then they will pass those genes on to their children. What an awesome way for a book to live on even as the printed version of these pages crumble to dust. We are grateful that we had the knowledge, education, and resources to create this program for our children. But we did not do it alone.
Gary Taubes, the author of the New York Times best seller Good Calories, Bad Calories , was kind enough to read our proposal and then introduce us to his agent, Kristine Dahl at ICM, who agreed to become our literary agent. Were it not for Gary's generosity and Kris's guidance and hard work representing us in finding a publisher, this book wouldn't have happened. Our thanks to you both, and to Laura Neely of ICM as well.
Our thanks to Andrew Clark, our researcher, who spent countless hours finding the references that we used to educate ourselves before we knew this was going to become a book. There were more than 1,300 references, to be more accurate, and Andrew formatted and posted them on our website so they will be available for everyone who has the time and desire to cull through them. His tireless attention to writing and editing was critical. This book wouldn't exist without Andrew's diligence and attention to every detail.
Ronnie Falcao, LM, MS, CPM, our homebirth midwife, shared her amazing knowledge about how birth affects baby health and wellness, and she provided gentle but insistent encouragement to write this book after she saw how transformative our program was when we used it ourselves. We are grateful that Ronnie runs gentlebirth.org, a wonderful site for parents looking to change birth into the emotional and spiritual experience it is. Barbara Findeisen, one of the world's foremost experts on pre-and perinatal psychology, also helped to shape our understanding of birth and how important it is for healthy children. Barbara can be found at starfound.org. Jan Rydfors, MD, our ob-gyn at Stanford, was amazingly open and supportive of our nontraditional approach, saying, “Whatever you're doing, keep it up. It's working!”
Our thanks to Dr. Philip Lee Miller, MD, of Los Gatos Longevity Institute ( antiaging.com ), who used bioidentical hormones and nutrition to help both of us balance our hormones for maximum health and fertility. Dr. Miller generously provided knowledge and support far beyond expectations, and it made a difference to us personally, and to the book and hopefully the parents who read it.
For nearly twenty years, world-class health and medical researchers and practitioners have been presenting their findings to the public at Silicon Valley Health Institute ( svhi.com ) meetings in Palo Alto. Dave is grateful to be president of SVHI and believes that this book would not have been possible without the knowledge he gained from more than a decade of learning with experts. In particular, Steve Fowkes, the biochemist adviser to SVHI, author of several health books, and head of CERI.com , played a pivotal role in the evolution of this book by sharing an almost supernatural understanding of the inner workings of human biochemistry.
Our editor at John Wiley & Sons, Thomas Miller, and assistant editor Jorge Amaral were hugely helpful in bringing the book to fruition and keeping our writing concise and on target. Beth Rashbaum, an independent editor, helped to set the tone of the book early in our process of writing.
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