Pregnancy Diet Expert: The Pregnancy Diet That Rewrites DNA! Why Pregnant Moms Are Being Lied To!

**Jessie Inchauspé** (0:00)
With your diet during pregnancy, you're programming your baby's DNA, and this is going to have an impact on your baby's development and on their future risk of disease. And there's a lot of pregnant moms who are eating a diet that's not giving them the nutrients their baby needs. This is not the mom's fault. This is the fault of our food system. This is the fault of society. And nobody's telling moms about this. And I wanted to create this guide to help parents navigate that food system and see easy things they can do to help their baby's development. And I know this because as a biochemist, when I became pregnant, I just went deep, deep, deep into the research. And there are some main things that I learned. For example, 90% of moms are not getting enough choline during pregnancy. And choline is super important. It forms your baby's brain in the womb. So this is the amount of eggs that I ate per week during the nine months of pregnancy. Because this is the simplest way to give enough choline to our baby. And then your baby needs no fructose during pregnancy. So sugar from dessert, from chocolate, from muffins, from cupcakes. Your baby needs none of this. Because if you have very high glucose levels during pregnancy, scientists have found that your baby's DNA will have epigenetic switches that are programming them towards having a higher vulnerability to develop diabetes, obesity and psychiatric disorders. Next, this is basically the amount of protein that I needed to eat every single day in the third trimester of pregnancy.

**Steven Bartlett** (1:16)
Day?

**Jessie Inchauspé** (1:17)
Yeah, because the studies show low protein diets lead to smaller babies. And potentially this epigenetic programming of staying smaller throughout life. And it's findings like that that led me to create a plan and simple hacks for pregnant moms. And we can talk about them.

**Steven Bartlett** (1:31)
And then what does the research say about breastfeeding exercise? Cathy, and also do you recommend that mothers take certain supplements?

**Jessie Inchauspé** (1:38)
So this is what people need to know.

**Steven Bartlett** (1:42)
Just give me 30 seconds of your time. Two things I wanted to say. The first thing is a huge thank you for listening and tuning into the show week after week. It means the world to all of us and this really is a dream that we absolutely never had and couldn't have imagined getting to this place. But secondly, it's a dream where we feel like we're only just getting started. And if you enjoy what we do here, please join the 24% of people that listen to this podcast regularly and follow us on this app. Here's a promise I'm going to make to you. I'm going to do everything in my power to make this show as good as I can, now and into the future. We're going to deliver the guests that you want me to speak to, and we're going to continue to keep doing all of the things you love about the show. Jessie Inchauspé, The Glucose Goddess. For people that don't know who you are, what have you spent the best part of the last decade committing your life to, and why?

**Jessie Inchauspé** (2:38)
My work started in the glucose space, meaning the blood sugar space. I was showing people how blood sugar impacts all of us on a daily basis. The spikes and dips after we eat, they lead to inflammation, faster aging, cravings, fatigue. And it's been the basis of my work, because glucose matters for everybody, and it is the core of a healthy body and mind. And so that's where I started, because it's so important.

**Steven Bartlett** (3:02)
We last spoke almost two years ago now. What have you learned in those last two years that has evolved your own thinking, or has developed your own thinking in any way? If we reflect on the last conversations we had around glucose spikes and sugar, and the health consequences and diets, is there anything you've learned in those two years that is interesting and new?

**Jessie Inchauspé** (3:21)
Oh, absolutely.
I think mostly the impact of glucose on mood and on relationships. For example, there's this fascinating study that took married couples, and they gave the husband and the wives a little voodoo doll representing their spouse. And the researchers told the participants to put a little pin in the voodoo doll every time their spouse annoyed them. At the end of the two weeks, the researchers counted the number of pins in the voodoo dolls, and they also measured the participants glucose levels. They found that the people who had the most glucose lows had put the most pins in the voodoo doll representing their spouse. So it's just an association, but it's interesting. And scientists then found that when you have very unsteady glucose levels, it impacts this neurotransmitter in your brain called tyrosine that manages your mood. So it seems that with unsteady glucose levels, your mood is less stable, which could then correlate to you being more annoyed at your spouse. So I think studies like this have really blown my mind.