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"Most flu vaccinations still contain mercury, and those that do contain mercury should not be given to children or pregnant women. PRE-CHELATION ISSUE #2 Improving Nutritional Status and Overcoming Any Nutritional Deficiencies Many autistic children have nutritional deficiencies that should be remedied prior to chelation. If they are not resolved, they can hinder the process of detoxification, and can also make children somewhat more vulnerable to further metabolic problems." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.) "Later, the government began to recommend annual flu shots containing mercury to all children who were six months or older, and to pregnant women. This doubled the number of immunizations from eleven to twenty-two in a child's first eighteen months, and crammed them much closer together, which increased the vaccinations' toxic burden. Most of these vaccinations contained a form of mercury called thimerosal, which is a preservative." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.) "Furthermore, the government still allows thimerosal to be put into flu vaccines, and still recommends these vaccines be given to children and pregnant women. In addition, health authorities still cling to the accelerated schedule of immunizations. Despite all this, I am absolutely not anti-vaccination. I am simply in favor of safer vaccinations, administered properly, to healthy children, without thimerosal, over an extended time period. In this book, I will tell you about safer ways to have your children vaccinated. Please see Appendix #1 for more information." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.) "In the late 1990s, when tens of thousands of parents began to claim that vaccinations had harmed their children, the federal government investigated the issue and decided, in the year 2000, to phase out thimerosal from all vaccinations, except for flu vaccinations, which are still recommended for pregnant women and infants. This removal of thimerosal was also mandated by the governments of Japan, Russia, Great Britain, and all of the Scandinavian countries." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"It is not safe for use by pregnant women and unknown whether or not it is safe for lactating women. Uva-Ursi Acute infections: I-IV2 tsp tincture or 300 mg dried herb capsule every 3 hours for 2 days, then I-IV2 tsp 3 times daily for 7 days Chronic, recurring infections: best not to use more than 5 or 6 times per year; use in combination with soothing botanicals such as marshmallow Prevention: best not to use daily for long term Pipsissewa (Chimaphila umbellata)." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.) "Blood tests are used to diagnose both the active form of HBV and the carrier state. pregnant women can be screened for the virus during their prenatal care. OVERVIEW OF ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE Due to potential infertility from the scarring of acute PID as well as some of the other complications of chlamydial infection and gonorrhea, my advice is to consider alternative medicine as an adjunct to conventional antibiotics rather than a primary treatment." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.) "The following guidelines are generally safe for pregnant women: • Avoid sugars, refined carbohydrates, alcohol, and fermented foods. • Eat 8 oz unsweetened acidophilus yogurt daily. • Lactobacillus species capsules: 8 to 48 billion organisms per day. immune enhancing, soothing to the membranes, or antifungal. These suppositories can be made at home with powdered herbs and cocoa butter or can be purchased from a natural food store or alternative health-care practitioner. Gentian Violet. Most herbal suppositories, including boric acid and tea tree oil, should be avoided during pregnancy." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"Women on hormone replacement therapy or those taking birth control pills are at increased risk of developing these deadly clots, as are pregnant women. People with clotting disorders or certain medical conditions that restrict mobility, such as heart failure or chronic respiratory disease, are at risk as well. WARNING SIGN DVT without an obvious precipitating cause may be one of the very earliest clues to cancer. In fact, the link between DVT and cancer was first noted by the 19th-century physician Armand Trousseau." - Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan, Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective (Get the book.)

"At McMaster University in Canada, 1223 pregnant women carrying children at high-risk of developing atopic dermatitis were randomized to use a probiotic preparation or a placebo for two to four weeks before delivery. For sixth months after birth, their infants received the placebo or the same probiotics as their mother, plus galacto-oligosac-charides, a prebiotic. After two years, the incidence of allergic diseases (food allergy, eczema, asthma and allergic rhinitis) was evaluated. There were healthy amounts of Lactobacilli and Bifidobacterium species in the supplemented children." - Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.)

"Consumer and public health groups indicate that virtually every can of tuna is contaminated to some degree, and fish-safety experts now think pregnant women should avoid canned tuna entirely because there's no way to know for sure which cans contain the least amount of mercury. Moreover, we don't know about the safety of even brief exposure to a fetus. (For more information on fisheating safety, you may want to browse Environmental Defense's Web site and their "eco-best" and "eco-worst" fish at www.oceansalive.org." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"We don't recommend oral chelators for individuals with serious kidney dysfunction or for pregnant women. Vitamin C Most people taking vitamin C for protection from colds would never guess that they are getting a big heart and artery boost to boot. Consider these benefits of vitamin C: • Retards progression of atherosclerosis. For people with this disease, it decreases the incidence of adverse cardiovascular events and related deaths by 40 to 60 percent. • Decreases the need for repeat angioplasty by 57 percent. • Reverses endothelial dysfunction." - Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and James C., M.D. Roberts, Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It's Too Late (Get the book.) "Although we don't know of any absolute contraindications to CoQIO, we do not recommend it for healthy pregnant women, nursing mothers, newborns, or very young children. There is not enough data on its use in these populations. However, in pregnant or nursing mothers with heart disease, we have used CoQIO with no adverse effects. Not only statins but beta blockers can inhibit CoQIO activity in the body. This may explain why some patients with heart failure worsen on beta blockers. CoQIO supplementation reduces beta blocker-induced fatigue." - Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and James C., M.D. Roberts, Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It's Too Late (Get the book.) "However, even though there are no known contraindications of D-ribose therapy, we recommend that pregnant women, nursing mothers, and very young children refrain from taking D-ribose simply because there is not enough research on its use in these populations. D-ribose can actually lower blood glucose levels; therefore, insulin-dependent diabetics should check with their physicians before starting on the supplement. Carefully monitor the blood glucose level so as not to accidentally overdose on insulin." - Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and James C., M.D. Roberts, Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It's Too Late (Get the book.)

"If estrogen and progesterone caused breast cancer, then pregnant women, adolescents, and young adults would have the very highest breast cancer rates because their bodies have the highest levels of these hormones. To the contrary, cancer rates increase with age, when our estrogen and progesterone levels are at their all-time low. The one study that fomented a great deal of fear about breast cancer and heart disease from hormone use was the WHI study, published in 2002. (This study and others are discussed in more detail in chapters 3 and 9.) What did the WHI study actually prove?" - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.) "If it were, pregnant women, who have the highest levels of all, would be getting cancer left and right, but they do not. To the contrary, numerous studies have shown that natural progesterone has protective effects against cancer, and that women who lack progesterone during perimenopause have an increased risk of breast cancer. Natural progesterone prevents blood clotting and the narrowing of blood vessels, which can be caused by high levels of estrogen. In addition, natural progesterone reduces bad lipids and improves good lipids, but synthetic progestins don't." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.)

"In a randomized clinical trial, subjects were depressed, economically disadvantaged, pregnant women who were not seeking treatment. Some were assigned to a condition where they received either an MI-style "engagement session" followed by eight therapy sessions or a referral for therapy in the community. Almost three-quarters of the women who went through the engagement session completed a course of therapy, whereas only a quarter of the other women did. There have been other similarly promising studies." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"A 2007 study from England evaluated the effects of a single bout of exercise on the mood of sixty-six healthy pregnant women who were divided into four groups. They either walked on a treadmill, swam, took an arts and crafts class, or did nothing extra. Women in both exercise groups improved their moods, even though they weren't necessarily problematic to begin with. It's also well established that an expectant mother's state of mind may alter her baby's development." - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.) "In its 2002 recommendations, the ACOG warns against exercise for pregnant women who are overweight, diabetic, heavy smokers, or who have high blood pressure — the very women who need exercise. In these cases, exercise may not be totally out of the question; it's just that they should start very slowly, working closely with their doctors. Many expectant mothers don't have a clear idea of what they can do, and they think in terms of avoiding rather than engaging." - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.)

"A type of diabetes that can occur in pregnant women who have not been known to have diabetes before. Although gestational diabetes usually subsides after pregnancy, many women who've had gestational diabetes develop Type-2 diabetes later in life. gingivitis—A swelling and soreness of the gums that, without treatment, can cause serious gum problems and disease. glaucoma—An eye disease characterized by increased pressure in the eye. glomeruli—Tiny blood vessels in the kidneys where the blood is filtered and waste products are eliminated. glucagon—A hormone that raises the blood glucose level." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.) "It occurs in 5 to 14 percent of pregnant women. It is important to diagnose this effectively and treat it because it plays a big role in the onset of Type-2 diabetes five to ten years later. Half of women who've had gestational diabetes eventually develop Type-2.129 It is associated with the metabolic changes that take place during a normal pregnancy. To conserve sugar for the baby, mom's placenta produces hormones that naturally increase insulin resistance, thus rerouting some of the sugar to her fetus that before pregnancy would have gone to her cells." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"Filled with toxins such as PCBs and mercury, fish are a known hazard—so much so that pregnant women are advised to eat them sparingly. And the development of fish farming, made necessary by the steady depletion of the Earth's oceans, poses some new dangers. Fish farming is so unhealthy that its products must be treated with antibiotics, and many health authorities advise against eating farm-grown fish. There is no doubt that the omega-3 fatty acids found in fish are valuable, but there are other, safer sources of these acids, which I will discuss in Chapter 8. 5." - Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D., Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease (Get the book.)

"A study was done in 1992 on the daily ingestion of yogurt containing Lactobacillus acidophilus in pregnant women with recurrent candidal vaginitis. The women who ate eight ounces daily of the yogurt had a threefold decrease in infections when compared to the women who did not eat the yogurt.64 It is now also popular to ingest Lactobacillus acidophilus supplements in oral form in place of or in addition to eating yogurt or to apply lactobacilli directly into the vagina. A number of studies have supported the use of lactobacillus in preventing and treating vaginitis." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"There are differences between men and women when it comes to sleep problems. "Pregnant women, whose abdomens have become extended during childbirth, can't fall into their usual sleep positions or have their usual contact with their bed mates," Dr. Dunkell says. "There is also an increase in insomnia caused by the pregnancy toward the end of the pregnancy period. Postpartum, women often have difficulty falling asleep for a number of days or weeks. Men generally have most of the insomnia that occurs before the age of 55 but in the postmenopausal period, women catch up." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"Amendments strengthening the Food, Drug, and Cosmetics Act were passed in 1962 in the wake of thalidomide, the drug that caused devastating birth defects when it was given to pregnant women. A series of midair collisions prompted the passage of the Federal Aviation Act twenty years later. Today, heart-wrenching stories like that of Deamonte Driver are helping focus the nation's attention once again on the plight of the uninsured. One state, Massachusetts, has already passed legislation aimed at insuring all residents. Others are considering similar proposals." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"They answered, and said: 'Our unanimous advice is that thou shouldst build a great house, station a guard at the entrance thereof, and make known in the whole of thy realm that all pregnant women shall repair thither together with their midwives, who are to remain with them when they are delivered. When the days of a woman to be delivered are fulfilled, and the child is born, it shall be the duty of the midwife to kill it, if it be a boy." - Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces Joseph Campbell (Get the book.)

"Calcium and phosphorus are needed by pregnant women for fetal bone formation. Phosphorus is needed to form the structure of both DNA and RNA. Adequate dietary calcium is needed to prevent calcium losses from bones of the mother. During pregnancy, if insufficient dietary calcium is consumed, calcium and lead could be removed from the bones of the mother and put into the blood circulation with damaging effects on the fetus. Lead can easily pass through the placenta and can damage the vulnerable nervous system of the growing fetus." - Dr. Steve Blake, Vitamins and Minerals Demystified (Get the book.)

"Even though there is no evidence of harmful effects in the fetus from limited use by pregnant women, I generally don't recommend it for pregnant or breast-feeding women. Ashwagandha (Withania somnifera) has been used for thousands of years in Ayurveda, the traditional medicine system of India. It has been nicknamed "Indian ginseng" because like Asian ginseng, China's king of herbs, it's used for helping increase vitality, energy, endurance, and stamina, promote longevity, and strengthen the immune system (although it is not related to ginseng botanically)." - Frank Lipman, Mollie Doyle, Spent: Revive: Stop Feeling Spent and Feel Great Again (Get the book.)

"Not all pregnant women have an equal chance of undergoing the procedure. Reminiscent of Shaw's complaint, it turns out that women who are healthier, of higher social class, better insured or cared for in private services are at higher "risk" than their poorer, less-insured counterparts, even though it is lower-class women that have higher risk pregnancies. Hospital stays are considerably longer, and costs considerably higher. Who the physician is also matters." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

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