A short conversational transcript advising people to prepare their bodies before attempting pregnancy by changing daily habits. Key recommendations include adjusting sleep and circadian behaviors, reducing stimulants and alcohol, prioritizing diet (organic/pesticide-free), and minimizing exposure to chemical-laden personal care products. The speaker suggests starting now and ideally having six months of preparation before conception.
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So my claim is that you don't want to get pregnant. And when I say that to someone, they usually go back on their heels, look at me askance and want to run out of the room until I say what you want is a healthy baby. Because you can have as many healthy, as many positive pregnancy tests as, you know, the cows come home. But if you are struggling, carrying that pregnancy, delivering a healthy baby, having a healthy postpartum, enhancing your healthy family, community and future, then you've missed the mark. And so we need to start before you try to conceive. So for instance, they may be getting up in the morning and chugging back that cup of coffee before they get on Zoom for 10 hours. Then they're running to their high intensity interval training or their Pilates or yoga class. Then they're going out for that glass of wine with friends, and then they're staying up late at night because they've got work to catch up on and, and then getting to bed at, you know, whatever midnight, one o' clock in the morning with all the blue lights that are, that are sort of affecting their ability to detoxify and remodel and restore at night light. The light that, that has us think it's, it's high noon when it's actually 10pm and that's the irony is that it isn't hard. Well, let me put it this way. It's simple. And in some cases making these lifestyle changes are hard.
So she's trying to get you to change your mor. Morning behaviors in your nighttime behaviors and then I guess everything between how you choose to, you know, take it on essentially as a function of your personal genetics, your environment, how you eat, how you drink, the air you breathe, how you sleep. I, I find products to be a very slippery slope.
Well, they can be again because we, we've just been so enculturated to think that we need, I don't know, 10, especially women, 10 products before we go out the door. We have to wash our face, we have to put the toner on, we have to put the cream on, then we put the makeup on. And each of these can be riddled with hundreds of chemicals that are going directly to our eyes, at our nose, at our mouth. We don't want to be using a toothpaste that has all of these additives and chemicals that are going right into that very thin mucosa of your mouth, directly into your bloodstream. And so then don't even have the pass at the liver for trying to clean it up, up so absolutely it is not just what we eat. But I will say about the what we eat because I'm afraid I might forget try just pesticide free organic. When people say, well, when do I start? I'm like, now. Whether or not you're trying to conceive this month, or whether or not you've got three months or six months, if I, if, you know, in my perfect world, you'd have six months.
