Your Baby's Metabolism is Being Decided Right Now | Jessie Inchauspé

Your womb is not just an oven. It's more like your baby is a seed and you're the soil. And if you plant this seed in your driveway full of gravel, it's not going to grow as strong and healthy as if you plant it in a nice piece of soil. You're co-creating your baby's genetic plan with your diet. The placenta is not a filter.

The placenta does not keep out all the bad and give only the good to your baby. 90% of pregnant moms are below the minimum recommended amount of choline during pregnancy. Even though this nutrient builds their baby's brains. We're lying to moms.

What happens during pregnancy is very important for the health of their baby. At conception, your baby's DNA is set, but the epigenetics, which genes are switched on, which genes are silenced, that has to do with your diet during pregnancy. The food you eat sends a sort of like postcard to your baby telling him what world he's gonna be born into. Jessie in Zussepi is a French biochemist. She's a founder and international

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