How to have the healthiest babies (Principle #11)

with Sally Fallon Morell

Is it important to detox before conception? Are prenatal vitamins helpful? What foods should we include in our diet, pre-conception, and when pregnant and nursing? What role does birth control play in our fertility? In today’s episode, Sally Fallon Morell, president of the Weston A. Price Foundation, answers all of the above and then some as we discuss Principle #11 of the Wise Traditions diet: how men and women can plan and prepare for conception with nutrient-dense foods. She tells how all traditional cultures had special diets and “sacred foods” for men and women wanting to get pregnant, and how today’s recommendations for women who want children are often misguided. Sally sets the record straight for what foods you really need to eat to have a healthy pregnancy, and, in turn, healthy, happy children. Her perspective is based on the work of Dr. Weston A. Price, who travelled all around the globe in the 1930s, studying traditional food ways and the diets of the healthiest peoples.

Notes:

Highlights in the discussion include:

how this principle sets the Weston A. Price Foundation apart from other diet & health-related organizations
why it’s important for both men and women to eat properly to prepare for conception
how most of the dietary advice offered to pregnant women today is wrong
why we should actually be eating all the foods we’re been told not to eat by the mainstream, if we want a healthy pregnancy, including liver, butter, raw milk and egg yolks
why you need to actually prepare by eating this diet for 6 months to 2 years before you want to conceive a child
discussion of one culture’s tradition of eating fermented shark liver oil to ensure healthy babies
the role of hormonal birth control in fertility
what, if any, detoxifying Sally recommends to prepare for pregnancy
the importance of spacing children (2-3 years between births), and how traditional cultures handled this
why a nutrient-dense diet is vitally important through pregnancy and breastfeeding
how prenatal vitamins are not all they’re touted to be, and the more certain route to get your vitamins and minerals
why vitamin A is considered “the concert master of fetal development”
how Vitamin A is not toxic when it comes from natural food sources like liver, and its role in protecting against birth defects
how taking prescription drugs during pregnancy can often times manifest symptoms in our children
how to prepare for pregnancy in our modern world: what foods to eat and what foods and lifestyle changes should be made to ensure a healthy pregnancy and proper fetal development

Resources:

Sally’s book on baby and child care: http://newtrendspublishing.com/the-nourishing-traditions-book-of-baby-child-care/

A community of parents: https://nourishingourchildren.org/

Sally’s video on the guidelines for a healthy pregnancy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PTehaeyTl0

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Comments

Victor Cozzetto says

August 22, 2018 at 2:37 pm

I think this is such an important episode, as the future of the human race quite literally depends on this kind of information. Save a lifetime of trouble before that lifetime even begins. These ladies know what they are talking about.

I had written my own guide as a handy trifold that tries to summarize much of what Sally says here. And I have published a recent blogpost to highlight that and point to this wonderful podcast: http://www.vitagenics.net/making-babies/

Keep up the great work!
Victor