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"It goes so far as to state that 75 per cent of pregnant women are completely symptom-free. The improvement appears to be caused by a protein which they have called PAG ?Pregnancy Associated Glycoprotein. The report says that PAG "is present in pregnant women in large quantities but it is almost undetectable in non-pregnant women". The importance of the role played by PAG in pregnant women with rheumatoid arthritis is shown by the fact that the symptoms of the disease usually return almost as soon as the baby is born ?usually within six weeks." - Jan De Vries, Life Without Arthritis: The Maori Way (Get the book.)

"We now have rigorous labor standards for pregnant women, pills to treat impotence and ADHD, and circumcision is an unquestioned hospital procedure for 80 percent of American families.5 Those are the stories that shape our reality, some for better, some for worse. The "Alzheimerization" of dementia . . . has served to impede the process of cultural transformation.6 ?" - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.)

"At the end of the three-year study, Regarding folic acid: The recommended daily allowance for adults is 400 meg and 600 meg for pregnant women. I say nonsense. I'd like to see 800 meg as the minimum, and I routinely use amounts in the milligram (not the smaller microgram) level. In fact, one of my favorite folic acid supplements (Super Folate Supreme) comes in an eyedropper—one single drop of the fluid gives you 800 meg. I routinely put at least four or five drops (4 mg to 5 mg) in a smoothie or fresh vegetable and fruit juice (the folic acid is tasteless!)." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"Indeed, it's so prevalent during pregnancy, affecting about half of pregnant women, usually during the second or third trimester, that it's often called the mask of pregnancy. The dark patches can also be a reaction to birth control pills or estrogen replacement therapy. The good news is that within duces tiny clumps of cells in various organs in your body. Sarcoidosis can affect not just the skin but also many other body organs, including the eyes, liver, lymph nodes, and lungs." - 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.)

"In one recent study—which found that 100 percent of pregnant women now carry numerous pesticides in their placentas—endosulfan was found to be present at the highest concentration of any organochlorine pesticide. Like PFOA, organochlorine pesticides such as endosulfan also affect the immune system. Indeed, if you were to do a search on "endosulfan and immune system" on the National Library of Medicine's Internet database, PubMed, you would receive twenty hits detailing the link between endosulfan and immune system dysfunction." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.) "In 2006, researchers found that BPA—at concentrations lower than those already found in pregnant women, fetuses, and adults, and well within the range of our typical human exposure—causes estrogen receptors to initiate unnaturally rapid responses, changing our basic cellular function. Significant effects can be seen at extremely low levels of exposure—parts per billion and even per trillion— levels currently present in blood samples taken from people as well as animals." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"The take-home message is that all pregnant women badly need normal vitamin D levels throughout pregnancy. Systemic Lupus Erythematosis Systemic lupus erythematosis—simply called lupus—is an autoimmune disease that occurs when D-cells are randomly activated and proceed to jump-start T-cells that, in turn, instruct B-cells to make antibodies to you. Your body turns on you. If you have lupus, your body may make antibodies to a variety of self-proteins, including skin, joints, muscles, kidneys, blood cells, and brain. These antibodies cause inflammation that can lead to organ damage." - James Dowd and Diane Stafford, The Vitamin D Cure (Get the book.) "Researchers looking at Indians living in the United Kingdom saw that last-trimester vitamin D supplementation of nutrition-deficient pregnant women who were eating low-protein vegetarian diets made these women gain weight faster in the third trimester and have infants half as likely to have intrauterine growth retardation. This information suggests that vitamin D and diet play important roles in fetal development and future risk for metabolic syndrome." - James Dowd and Diane Stafford, The Vitamin D Cure (Get the book.)

"Thus, Flor-Essence is not recommended for pregnant women. Additionally, nursing mothers need to understand that the body will use the quickest means available to get rid of toxic substances and waste products. The possibility exists that it could use the mother's milk. Therefore although Flor-Essence itself can be taken by infants, it is not recommended for nursing mothers. FINAL THOUGHTS As every person is unique, like a fingerprint, Flor-Essence may benefit each one in its own way." - Freedom Press, Natural Cancer Cures: The Definitive Guide to Using Dietary Supplements to Fight and Prevent Cancer (Get the book.)

"Most important, don't drink and drive; and do work within your community to help cre- • As an unfortunate sign of the times, pregnant women and children must be cautious about mercury and PCB content of oily fish. ate a social climate that discourages those most at risk?young adults between the ages of 16 and 25—from drinking and driving. 7. Don't engage in unsafe sex. This may sound quite formidable at first, but two studies show just how simple and effective healthy habits can be." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"However, even though there are no known contraindications of ribose therapy, I recommend that pregnant women, nursing mothers, and very young children refrain from taking ribose simply because there is not enough published data on its use in these populations. Also, because ribose has the effect of actually lowering blood glucose levels, I suggest that insulin-dependent diabetics check with their physicians before starting ribose treatment." - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.) "However, though we do not know any absolute contraindications to coenzyme Qio, we do not recommend it for pregnant women, nursing mothers, very young children, or newborns, since there is not yet enough data on its use in these populations. See the inset "Adverse Events Reported for Long-Term Usage of Coenzyme Qi0 in 5,000 Patients" below for a summary of reported adverse reactions from 5,000 patients on coenzyme Q10 therapy. Drug Interactions In all our combined years of experience with coenzyme Qi0, we have seen only a very few major drug interactions." - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.)

"Unfortunately, BV puts pregnant women, their babies, and their future fertility at risk. Miscarriage, premature births, low-birth-weight babies, and pelvic inflammatory disease can result from BV during pregnancy. Yellow, frothy, smelly vaginal discharge, as well as itching and a burning sensation when urinating, can signal a microscopic parasitic infection trichomonas vaginalis. Commonly called "trich," this is another very common STD in the United States and in many other parts of the world." - 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.)

"In other tribal regions, fruits were ceremonially fed to pregnant women to make trees bear abundant crops. The complexities of soil management have long baffled us. The Earth, with its life-giving vitality, as well as its deathliness, was a convergence of Eros and Thanatos. Peasant women in Europe used to squirt breast milk on soil to encourage it. We've fertilized with hair, blood, used wigs, rotting blankets and just about anything else that once lived. One Boston grape grower's root system was embedded in the decomposing corpse of a circus elephant." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"Stress incontinence is the most common urinary leakage problem in young and middle-aged women, particularly in pregnant women. It's also frequently seen after childbirth or pelvic surgery, especially hysterectomy. It's a common sign of menopause, too. The fall in estrogen levels causes a drop in the urethra's ability to resist the flow of urine; the result is small amounts of urine trickling out. But men aren't immune to stress incontinence. It's often an unfortunate complication of prostate surgery." - 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.)

"Mercury can accumulate in the umbilical-cord blood of pregnant women at a level that's 1.7 times as great as the concentration in the mother's blood itself. That means that a newborn's mercury level might reach 5.8 parts per billion in a mother whose mercury concentration is just 3.5 parts per billion— at a particularly dangerous time in fetal brain development." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.) "Panel members complained that the report excluded some important studies, making it impossible to reach a clear answer as to whether fillings are safe, especially for pregnant women and children. They concluded that far more study was required. Meanwhile, in the field of autoimmune-disease research, studies tie abnormal amounts of heavy metals such as mercury to scleroderma, with other research relating having a high number of dental fillings to one's likelihood of developing scleroderma." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"Through hypnotic intention, spinal-surgery patients about to undergo their operations have reduced blood loss by nearly half, simply by directing their blood supply away from the site of the surgery.58 pregnant women have been able to turn their babies from breech positions, burn victims have sped up their healing, and people suffering hemorrhages in the gastrointestinal tract have willed their bleeding to stop." - Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World (Get the book.)

"People who are moderately or severely ill at the time the shot is scheduled should usually wait until they recover before getting MMR vaccine. ?Pregnant women should wait to get MMR vaccine until after they have given birth. Women should avoid getting pregnant for 4 weeks after getting MMR vaccine. Some people should check with their doctor about whether they should get MMR vaccine, including anyone who: ?Has HIV/AIDS, or another disease that affects the immune system ?Is being treated with drugs that affect the immune system, such as steroids, for 2 weeks or longer. ?" - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"The authors of the above study on BPA and breast cancer risk in rats also linked the reported incidence of endocrine-dependent human cancers to even the minimal levels of estrogen-like chemicals, particularly BPA, to which pregnant women are exposed. An August 2, 2007, consensus statement by several dozen scientists warned that BPA, even at very low exposure levels, is probably responsible for many human reproductive disorders (6 )." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.) "One of the first significant findings came from a human study at the University of Rochester that measured phthalate levels in pregnant women and then, after the birth of their children, compared the results to the physical condition of their male infants. The study discovered "a significant relationship" between abnormal changes in male infant genitals and the phthalate levels in their mother's bodies while pregnant, suggesting that the phthalate contaminants had been passed on to the fetuses affected their development." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.)

"Feverfew should not be used by pregnant women. Dr. Emily Kane, in an article published by the American Association of Naturopathic Physicians in HealthWorld Online, adds her recommendations, with the reminder to first consult with a nutritionist or naturopath: vitamin B-complex injected into the muscle every two to ten days; omega-3 fatty acids (such as raw flax or linseed oil, one teaspoon daily); omega-6 fatty acids, found in fish, and olive oil; vitamin B3, 500 milligrams at the start of the migraine; magnesium in doses of 400 to 800 milligrams daily; and Quercetin, 500 milligrams per day." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"It may be worse in pregnant women or those who take birth control pills. High estrogen or progesterone is linked to acidity. WHAT ARE THE MAJOR CAUSES OF HEARTBURN? Diet Diet is often the key in treating heartburn. An overfilled stomach may be a factor in heartburn as the gastric contents push up into the esophagus. Too short an interval between meals can also cause heartburn. Foods that may aggravate heartburn are fried foods, fat, spices, salt, coffee, tea, sugar, vinegar, carbonated drinks, dried meats, alcoholic beverages, citrus fruits, tomatoes, chocolate and bread." - Heather Caruso, Your Drug-Free Guide to Digestive Health (Get the book.)

"One of the most surprising discoveries of late has been the detection of perchlorate in 160 public water systems in 22 states, which urged the Environmental Working Group to publish a press release in 2006 declaring perchlorate a "widespread public health threat" for pregnant women. The vast majority of perchlorate manufactured in the United States is used by the Department of Defense to make solid rocket and missile fuel, while smaller amounts are used to make fireworks and road flares." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.) "Mercury contamination is so pernicious in America that health advisories for pregnant women or women who want to become pregnant are in effect in forty states. According to the American Heart Association, middle-aged men with high levels of mercury from contaminated fish have a 70 percent increased risk of dying from heart disease. Those mercury-laden fish absorbed toxins from industrial operations, as hundreds of tons of mercury are pumped into the air by industry, predominately through burning coal in energy plants." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"Natto was also given to pregnant women to ensure healthy newborns. To this day, the people of Japan consume natto regularly, and it may be one of the reasons why they live longer. In his excellent book Reversing Heart Disease, Stephen Sinatra, M.D., suggests eating natto two or three times a week for both prevention and as part of a therapeutic program. Supplementing with Soy What's so amazing about a bunch of boiled, fermented soybeans? In a word, nattokinase." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advises pregnant women and children to avoid swordfish, shark, king mackerel, and tilefish and to limit consumption of king crab, snow crab, albacore tuna, and tuna steaks to six ounces or less per week. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recommends consumption of shrimp, canned light tuna, salmon, pollock, and catfish, which are low in mercury." Herring, sardines, and freshwater trout are thought to have low contamination levels and high n-3 profiles. When preparing fish, be aware that frying can degrade the levels of n-3 fatty acids." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.)

"In addition, infected pregnant women can pass HIV to their baby. A person with an HIV infection can develop AIDS. AIDS is a condition in which there is a weakening of the immune system. The effects are devastating, as the body cannot fight off common infections. Death due to infection is common. Is there potential for pro- jjie number of people living with HIV rose I biotics to play a role in the from 8 million in 1990 to nearly 40 million prevention of HIV infection? in 2005. I Researchers are working with antibodies to HIV." - Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.)

"I also recommend pregnant women consume at least 2 ounces of seeds and nuts a day. Nuts and seeds are about 175 calories an ounce. 3) Fruits You should always keep a good supply of fresh fruit on hand. It is the ultimate "convenience" food. Try to eat a variety of fruits: apples, apricots, bananas, blueberries, cherries, Clementines, dates, figs, grapefruit, grapes, kiwis, kumquats, mangoes, melons, nectarines, oranges, papayas, peaches, pears, persimmons, pineapples, plums, pomegranates, raspberries, strawberries, and tangerines." - Dr. Joel Fuhrman, Eat For Health: Lose Weight, Keep It Off, Look Younger, Live Longer (2 book set) (Get the book.)

"Children, pregnant women, and the elderly are often considered special populations. Synergistic effect: A health effect from an exposure to more than one chemical, wherein one of the chemicals worsens the effect of another chemical. The combined effect of the chemicals together exceeds the effects of any one chemical in isolation. Teratogen: Teratogens are substances that interfere with embryonic or fetal development, causing malformation or serious deviation from normal development in the womb. Toxic: Harmful. Any substance or chemical can be toxic at a certain dose (amount)." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

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