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 Why Child Nutrition, Due to Imprinting, is the Single Most Critical Factor Determining Human HealthDid you know that child nutrition, at the right time ofyour baby's life, could make the difference between mental and physical retardation versus robust mental and physical health, or even determine whether or not your child's IQ was 135, rather than the average 100? According to respected researcher and biologist, Dr. Ray Peat (google Ray Peat, "Progesterone: Essential to Your Well Being"): Recent studies imply that about half the children identified as hyperactive have experienced prenatal stress. The most urgent need for progesterone therapy, I think, is preventing a continuing epidemic of brain damage. Beyond that, many studies have found that the use of natural progesterone increases a child's IQ, typically by around 35 points and produces personalities that are more "independent, individualistic, self-assured, self-sufficient and sensitive" (J.M. Reinish, The Female Patient, April, 1978, p.87). Well, it appears that child nutrition can produce such a crucial difference, but, only, at the right time. When is that time where child nutrition exerts its optimal affect? The time for maximal child nutrition influence is prior to your baby's birth. It is self-evident that child nutrition is an important factor in determining a kid's health. Yet, one's genetic inheritance is often assumed to be of equal or of more importance, particularly since genes appear unalterable. Hence, we might hear that nature, that is to say genes, determine 75% of heart health and nurture, determines the other 25%. This is called the nature versus nurture debate. However, this belief that nature, in the final analysis, was the ultimate determiner of human health failed to consider the influence of child nutrition in utero, that is to say, the effect of child nutrition on the fetus, the unborn baby. When this vital time, called imprinting, is taken into consideration, child nutrition becomes the single most dominant factor determining your child's health and, therefore, his or her future success. Imprinting means that there exists a certain time in the development of the unborn baby where affects of hormones, vitamins and other internal child nutrition factors within the womb, will have a maximal influence on, not only the unborn baby's health, but on its later health during its entire human life cycle. One of the critical child nutrition factors during this period of imprinting is the hormone, progesterone. Sterling Morgan, in an excellent article, cites the importance of this hormone below (google Sterling Morgan progesterone for the complete article): "What if there was a natural substance that when used by a pregnant woman could:
That substance exists, and it is natural progesterone. We are not speaking about a synthetic drug like Provera, but rather one made from the extract of the Wild Mexican Yam, which precisely duplicates the chemical structure of natural progesterone as produced by the human body. Ask your doctor about progesterone and pregnancy, and he or she will probably tell you that the female produces up to 10 times more endogenous progesterone while pregnant. If you are asking about taking progesterone during pregnancy, you will most likely be told that it can be harmful to the fetus. However, the doctor is talking about synthetic progesterone, called “progestins” or “progestogens”, not the natural substance. Synthetic progestins are manufactured in the lab, and while they perform some of the functions of the natural type, they also block other important biological functions, such as the body’s own production of progesterone. Since a developing fetus actually requires natural progesterone for its growth and well being, which is why the body produces much more during pregnancy, it is easy to see why anything which lessens the natural substance could be harmful. Since the natural version is rather inexpensive and unpatentable, drug companies make the synthetic kind and then ask users to live with the many side effects. What the doctor probably won’t know is that over 25 years ago, a British doctor named Katerina Dalton researched the supplemental use of natural progesterone for pregnancy. She found that the children of mothers treated with it actually had faster development of motor skills, higher intelligence, graduated from college more often. They were calmer, better adjusted babies than the babies whose mothers did not take it. In an article published in 1968 in the British Journal of Psychiatry, Dalton studied 60 children at the age of one year. Twenty-nine of these were born to mothers who used supplemental natural progesterone during pregnancy. The mothers of the other 31 did not use any. Over 90% of the “progesterone” children were standing by age one, compared to only 60% of the “non-progesterone” children. Also at age one, over 60% of the “progesterone” children were walking, compared to about 35% of the “non-progesterone” children. Even more significantly, Dalton followed a different group of 79 children and related their school grades to whether their mothers had taken natural progesterone during pregnancy. She used a scale from 0 to 100% to measure their scholastic achievement in various subjects at school. This scale did not reflect actual grades received, but was an arbitrary method of measuring success. In all cases, “progesterone” children did better than the “non-progesterone” children, but in some cases the results were astounding! She also discovered that the best results occurred when the progesterone was started before the 16th week of pregnancy. Math skills were three times as high (60% to 20%) in progesterone children, and this was only for those whose mothers took it before the 16th week. For mothers who took it after the 16th week, the scores were 30%, still a 50% improvement over non-progesterone children. (The chief cause of early pregnancy loss is failure of increased progesterone production). Some doctors find that women with autoimmune fertility related problems are best treated with progesterone through the 16th week.- http://repro-med.net/papers/progest.php Progesterone children scored much higher than non-progesterone in verbal reasoning skills, academic subjects, and significantly better in physical education and English. In fact, the only skill where non-progesterone children scored almost as high as the progesterone children was in crafts. Finally, children whose mothers used natural progesterone were about seven times more likely to gain entrance to a university than their non-progesterone counter parts. A possible reason for the apparent increase in IQ and academic performance seems to be natural progesterone’s ability toretain glucose in the blood stream, thus elevating it and improving child nutrition. Since the fetus’ developing brain needs all the glucose it can get, natural progesterone allows more to reach it, and it may develop more than the brain of a baby whose mother did not take supplemental natural progesterone." Note that Dr. Dalton, not only concluded natural progesterone is safe to use during pregnancy, she recommended it. Progesterone's importance in contributing to the health and development of the unborn fetus cannot be over emphasized. Since progesterone’s effects influence the child even after birth, thus reflecting on child rearing, is why I’ve included it here. However, there exist many other important nutrients and hormones that affect child nutrition, such as thyroid, which, according to one article in the New England Journal of Medicine, prevented an IQ drop of seven points in children of hypothyroid mothers. For accurate information, concerning progesterone, thyroid and other nutrients, search the internet for books and articles by Dr. Katerina Dalton, Dr. Ray Peat and Dr. John Lee. Please take special care not to confuse progesterone with Provera. In a 1997 study (see: http://altmedangel.com/estrogen.htm)by Formby and Wiley, they found other potential child nutrition affects, such as:
As if the potential child nutrition affects of progesterone already covered are not enough, Dr. Uzzi Reiss, Beverly Hills gynecologist and obstetrician confirms these findings and adds: Progesterone, on the other hand, is the most protective breast hormone...It increases the activity of a gene called P53, which protects us from cancer. It also down regulates and decreases the function of BCL2, a gene that causes cancer. Progesterone prevents cells from replicating. Progesterone causes adhesion in the cell. There are many other detailed functions of progesterone that decrease cancer in the body. It also moves estrogen from a strong state to a less strong state. Medroxyprogesterone acetate (progestin), on the other hand, does the opposite. (See: (http://www.cbs.com/cbs_cares/menopause/menopause_interview_uzzi.shtml) Points to remember:
Prior to birth, there is a natural die off of brain cells. It appears that progesterone supplies increased glucose to the baby's brain decreasing this brain cell die off. This is reminiscent of mothers who are borderline diabetics that often have children with higher IQs due to the increase in glucose of their blood. Possible actions:
Given the above information, regarding the healthful effects of natural progesterone on child nutrition, the question comes to mind, why haven't these revolutionary positive affects been publicized? Unfortunately for child nutrition, the answer, according to this video, is that good health means less profit for the large pharmaceutical corporations. Widespread use of progesterone, as part of a national pregnancy nutrition program could prove an economic nightmare to the large pharmaceutical corporations. It's been reported that in the past, when confronted by such a disastrous economic prospect, sudden dire warnings, for example, of the cancer causing effects of such a supplement, appeared in the media to panic consumers into not using such remarkable remedies. In this regard, the phrase, follow the money, appears very appropriate when applied to the pharmaceutical industry. According to the following article, cited by Dr. Joseph Mercola: "On the matter of the 'fact creation' process, renowned author John Le Carre recently stated: "Big Pharma [the industry in general] is engaged in the deliberate seduction of the medical profession, country by country, worldwide. It is spending a fortune on influencing, hiring and purchasing academic judgment to a point where, in a few years' time, if Big Pharma continues unchecked on its present happy path, unbought medical opinion will be hard to find." (The Nation, New York, Interview with John Le Carre, 9th April 2001)" In the nature versus nurture controversy, the corporate pharmaceutical industry tends to argue for the nature perspective since that means genes are responsible for disease and not nutrition. Each gene is reponsible for each distinct disorder, and, thus, at stake are millions of patentable medicines and procedures of treatment, representing billions of dollars in profits. Imagine the billions of dollars big pharma stands to lose if it got out that nutrition is the single most critical factor determining human health; in other words, if people realized most diseases could be diminished or eliminated through relatively inexpensive nutritive treatments. Hence, parents must do their own research in regards to child nutrition, always keeping in mind, follow the money; that is to say, keeping in mind the influence of big pharma promoting their profit driven perspective.  Do you know the secret behind good study skills? Strategic study skills prove crucial for getting good grades now. When I learned good study skills my grades at Cal went from C's to A's. The Method is a no nonsense, no hype, 36 page study guide, detailing strategic study skills, so you can get good grades now, or pass almost any type of exam or test like the SAT, GRE, LSAT, MCAT, OCAT, and real estate. On the Optometry College Admission Test my lowest score was 95. In two other areas I scored the highest score possible 99 because The Method taught me good study skills. The study skills presented will help you pass any examination. Few people understand the secret behind study skills for attaining good grades now. The Method details, specifically, these secret study skills so you can succeed in high school, university, grad school or in any occupational exam. Click "THE METHOD" tab for more information. Consider buying my book as a donation to keep this web site going.
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