Written by Jessica Patella, ND. This study found an association between higher levels of fluoride exposure during pregnancy and lower IQ scores in three to four year old children. (more…)
Written by Angeline A. De Leon, Staff Writer. Maternal diet during pregnancy was independently associated with children’s hyperactivity–inattention symptoms but not with conduct problems, validating the importance of diet in pregnant women. (more…)
Written by Angeline A. De Leon, Staff Writer. Maternal exposure to benzophenone-3 (even at low levels not typically associated with cytotoxic effects) during a critical time period of embryo neural development increases the probability of Hirschsprung’s disease in offspring. (more…)
Written by Joyce Smith, BS. Prenatal or infant exposure to eleven pesticides, including glyphosate, chlorpyrifos, diazinon, and permethrin, were associated with increased odds of developing autism spectrum disorders in children. (more…)
Written by Joyce Smith, BS. This study demonstrates that a mixed herbal supplementation of three glactogogue herbs, fenugreek, ginger, and turmeric, can increase human milk volume in a period of two weeks without serious adverse effects to both mother and infant. (more…)
Written by Joyce Smith, BS. Consumption of fish contaminated with heavy metals during pregnancy may cause the immune systems of offspring to produce antinuclear antibodies and juvenile idiopathic arthritis. (more…)
Written by Joyce Smith, BS. This study found that school-age children, who have been prenatally exposed to alcohol, performed significantly lower than typically developing peers particularly in math, reading and spelling. (more…)
Written by Halima Phelps, Staff Writer. This study showed that an inositol combination given in early pregnancy did not reduce the incidence of GDM in women with a family history of diabetes. (more…)
Written by Angeline A. De Leon, Staff Writer. This study strengthens the hypothesis that dietary intake plays an important role in prenatal OP pesticides exposure among women living in an urban environment. (more…)
Written by Jessica Patella, ND. Of the participating fifty breast feeding mothers, those who supplemented with a combination of probiotics had a significant increase in total antioxidant capacity of breast milk compared to the control group. (more…)
Written by Angeline A. De Leon, Staff Writer. This perspective study finds that while moderate supplementation of multivitamins during pregnancy offers the greatest risk reduction for autism spectrum disorder in offspring, deficient or excessive supplementation of multivitamins during pregnancy significantly increases the risk. (more…)
Written by Greg Arnold, DC, CSCS. Myo-inositol, which has shown potential to help maintain healthy insulin levels in women with gestational diabetes, may benefit not only women during pregnancy, but also their newborns.
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Written by Angeline A. De Leon, Staff Writer. R. canina significantly reduced the occurrence of urinary tract infections in the 200 participating postpartum women who underwent cesarean sections compared to the control group of women. (more…)
Written by Joyce Smith, BS. Aromatherapy with rose geranium essential oil significantly reduced anxiety and diastolic blood pressure in the forty-nine participating nulliparous women in labor. (more…)
Written by Greg Arnold, DC, CSCS. Six weeks of treatment with 15mg of saffron was as effective as 20 mg of the drug fluoxetine in reducing the symptoms of postpartum depression in the sixty-four participating postpartum women. (more…)
Written by Jessica Patella, ND. Pregnant women 35 years of age and older, who took Lactobacillus rhamnosus during their pregnancy, significantly reduced their risk of developing gestational diabetes compared to those in the control group.
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Written by Jessica Patella, ND. Three grams of blackcurrant seed oil, when given to pregnant women at 8-16 weeks gestation, later through their breastfeeding cycle, and then to their infants until age 2 years, significantly improved atopic dermatitis in 12 month old infants compared to the olive oil placebo. (more…)
Written by Marcia J. Egles, MD. Dietary genistein and indole-3 carbinol, when given to pregnant female Sprague-Dawley rats exposed to Bisphenol A, modified the deleterious effect of morphological and gene expression changes induced in mammary glands of the offspring. (more…)
Written by Jessica Patella, ND. Analysis of 695 children (3 years post-delivery) revealed that children of mothers who supplemented with fish oil in the third trimester of their pregnancies had a 16.9% reduction in persistent wheeze and asthma compared to 23.7% in the control group, corresponding to a relative reduction of 30.7%.
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Written by Greg Arnold, DC, CSCS. One hundred three pregnant women, who took 600 mg of DHA during the last 6 weeks of their pregnancies, had a significant reduction in the number of preterm births. These numbers translate into tremendous cost savings to the US healthcare system.
