S1E12: Ask the Expert; Dr. Kirstin Lauritzen - Nutrition for Pregnant Athletes

On this week’s episode the hosts of WiSP Sports Mum’s the Word meet the host of Sound Bites, Dr Kirsten Lauritzen. The result is an insightful discussion about nutrition and functional medicine as it applies to pregnancy.  Kirstin practices in Oregon and helps us start to understand a little more about the role food can play in removing toxins from the body, as well as the difference in vitamin sources; pre-natal vs. dietary vitamins. 

Morning sickness can make it hard to get calories in or keep them down, so Kirstin recommends eating ginger as a natural anti-nausea and really… anything. If you can find anything that you can stomach and keep down, eat it.  The importance of folic acid in early pregnancy was covered as well as the history behind folic acid fortification in foods.  Fermented foods, pro-biotics, pre-biotics and gut health were explained as being essential to remain in good health, pregnant or not.  So get down to your local farmers market and find yourself a big pot of kimchi.  There is so much great information on this topic that we only managed to get from pre-pregnancy through to around the second trimester so Kirstin will be back for another episode to help us navigate through birth, recovery and the post-partum time.

Podcast length: 34 mins

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