#118 Discussing Current Prenatal Nutrition with Katie Dewhurst

Katie Dewhurst is the founder and CEO of Hello Balance, a health and wellness company helping women optimize their health through food. Katie is a certified functional medicine health coach and nutritionist, a cookbook author, and the founder of the Hello Baby Prenatal Nutrition Course which teaches women everything they need to know about optimizing their nutrition for pregnancy. She’s spent the last 6 years living abroad in Singapore and building her private coaching practice.

Research that we discussed:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0955286312000599?via%3Dihub

Anderson OS, Sant KE, Dolinoy DC. Nutrition and epigenetics: an interplay of dietary methyl donors, one-carbon metabolism and DNA methylation. J Nutr Biochem. 2012 Aug;23(8):853-9. doi: 10.1016/j.jnutbio.2012.03.003. Epub 2012 Jun 27. PMID: 22749138; PMCID: PMC3405985.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8181666/

Yen TT, Gill AM, Frigeri LG, Barsh GS, Wolff GL. Obesity, diabetes, and neoplasia in yellow A(vy)/- mice: ectopic expression of the agouti gene. FASEB J. 1994 May;8(8):479-88. doi: 10.1096/fasebj.8.8.8181666. PMID: 8181666.

https://www.nature.com/articles/ng0994-59#citeas

Duhl, D., Vrieling, H., Miller, K. et al. Neomorphic agouti mutations in obese yellow mice. Nat Genet 8, 59–65 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1038/ng0994-59

Brown mouses mom got supplemented with methyl-nutrients while white obese mouses mom was not given any methyl-nutrients.

Find Katie online:

https://www.hellobalance.co/ Look out for Katie's Free fertility guide coming at May 03!

Instagram:

@hellobabynutrition (fertility related)

@hellobalance (everything else including blood sugar management)

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