Episode 31: Exercise during Pregnancy and Developmental Origins of Health and Disease with Dr. Brittany Allman

In this episode of the podcast, I interview Dr. Brittany Allman.

Dr. Allman is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, where her areas of research include the maternal programming of obesity — how a mother’s health can influence the metabolic health of her offspring. She also is interested in the effect of obesity on mother and child health outcomes. Another promising area in which Dr. Allman is researching is exercise during pregnancy, and this was the main reason I wanted to interview her. We discuss the safety of exercise during pregnancy, the beneficial effects that exercise can exert throughout pregnancy on a mother’s health, and some fascinating science related to how exercise can influence the health of the baby through epigenetic and other types of metabolic and fetal programming.

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- DrBrittanyRAllman.com

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- List of Dr. Allman's scientific publications (Google Scholar)

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