pregnancy

I think we will be seeing more studies on this topic, especially in light of the ongoing human studies administering progesterone or (gasp!) estrogen to men in the hopes of improving the course of their COVID-19 disease. The results from the estrogen trials are already - surprise, surprise -...

Hello! I'm pregnant with my second baby and I'm hoping to get ideas for how to eat/supplement to promote an easy, quick, uncomplicated, comfortable child birth. Last time I used a birthing hypnosis program that was VERY helpful. Over all it went very well and I had a big healthy baby naturally...

The impact of a vegan diet on pregnancy outcomes Tomer Avnon 1,2 ● Efrat Paz Dubinsky3 ● Inbar Lavie2 ● Tali Ben-Mayor Bashi1 ● Ronit Anbar3,4 ● Yariv Yogev1,2 Received: 21 April 2020 / Revised: 28 July 2020 / Accepted: 25 August 2020 © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer...

Since Ray often mentions the anecdotes of children whose mothers have taken progesterone during pregnancy having a significant higher IQ than average, I ask myself whether some of you have used or plan to use progesterone for that purpose too. I myself am now near that age where having children...

hello all I am currently 8 months pregnant, and I am not doing so well. I feel constantly distressed and extremely depressed. These high levels of hormones are making me crazy. I’m having emotional flashbacks to things that happened to me in my early childhood to early twenties that I thought...

My partner and I will be trying to conceive this fall. We are considering getting the genetic test for cystic fibrosis. I am relatively well versed in Peat and his general thoughts on genetics vs. environment, however CF seems to be a rare truly genetic disease. I would appreciate any insight...

After almost a century of evidence in favor of aspirin, combined with complete failure to develop other pharmacological interventions (and believe me, Big Pharma tried hard) mainstream medicine seems to be growing desperate enough to start recommending aspirin to ALL pregnant women as prevention...

Pregnant women who don't make nearly enough thyroid hormone are nearly 4 times likelier to produce autistic children than healthy women. The association emerged from a study of more than 4,000 Dutch mothers and their children, and it supports a growing view that autism spectrum disorders can be...

Finally! Some common sense is emerging from the medical profession. For one, it points the finger straight at estrogen as a possible cause of autism. And not just estradiol, which the medical profession considers the only estrogen of note, but all 3 of them (estrone, estradiol, estriol). So, all...

As many readers have probably heard, rates of preterm births due to a variety of maternal conditions including (pre)eclampsia has been steadily increasing since the 1980s. The official version is that the cause is unknown despite older studies proving definitively that progesterone deficiency...

As many of you know, there are 2 fundamental dogmas in reproductive medicine. One is that every woman is born with a fixed number of eggs and those cannot be replenished. The second one is that there is a biological fertility clock in every woman that inexorably ticks, and if the female does not...

As horrifying as it sounds, prescribing NO-boosting drugs to pregnant women is apparently perfectly acceptable in the search of more profit. The doctors probably got misled by the common practice in NICU of giving babies with pulmonary hypertension (or other breathing problems) an inhalation...

The news against fluride just keep on coming. Some states in the USA have started legislation to remove fluoride from drinking water. In response, the federal government is threatening to withhold emergency and disaster-relief funding. I wonder why... Fluoride exposure in utero linked to lower...

The so-called fetal alcohol syndrome has been on the rise over the last 2 decades and its symptoms largely overlap with the "adult" alcohol syndrome or at least the behavioral parts of it. Broda Barnes once wrote that he never treated an alcoholic who was not also hypothyroid and that he also...

Allopathic medicine still denies that maternal stress during pregnancy affects the child's long term health. If anything, they say that the fetus may experience a slightly increased risk of infection during pregnancy but that risk goes back normal as soon as the baby is born. The main argument...

I posted recently about niacinamide being a potential treatment of pre- and -eclampsia. This new study adds aspirin to the list of substances that can help a mother with compromised health carry a baby to term. The benefit seems to be particularly relevant for women with PCOS and diabetes. The...

Apparently, the gene Gata2 is crucial for the protective effects of progesterone against estrogen carcinogenicity, as well as for ability to enable pregnancy formation. GATA2 - Wikipedia This study found that progesterone acts as a Gata2 agonist and absence of the gene makes mice infertile as...

Ray has written in several of his articles that human pregnancy is controlled primarily by the amounts of progesterone produced by the mother while pregnant. When the baby reaches a size that the metabolism of the mother and hence the production of progesterone cannot maintain any longer, labor...

I just posted a study that found a link between stress and elevated serotonin levels in pregnant women, which subsequently was tied to development of autism in the offspring. Stress Activates A Serotonin Gene In Pregnant Women And That Causes Autism Now, in agreement with that study a new one...

I have posted before on the (now accepted as causative) link between elevated serotonin levels in mother during pregnancy and autism in babies. Serotonin Causes Autism; Blocking It May Treat Autism Maternal Inflammation Causes Brain Damage (autism) By Raising Serotonin This study now ties...