Jordan: Hi, I'm Jordan Rubin and welcome to Ancient Medicine Today brought to you by draxe.com.
And I am here with, I was going to say old friend, but I'm going to say a young friend,
Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy.
She is a medical doctor, board certified in family practice and runs a center for new
medicine in Orange County, California.
And we're excited Dr. Connealy, to have you here because we're going to talk about something
we've never discussed but is so critical today and throughout history.
We're going to talk about "Preparing Your Body for Pregnancy."
I've often said that people should take classes before they have children, not just physically
but I think spiritually and mentally as well.
But tell us why we need to prepare our, well, "we" meaning the female population needs to
prepare their body for pregnancy.
I know it sounds like it's obvious but in your mind, why is it so important and what
would this change in the health of our children?
Dr. Connealy: Well, if you look at the statistics of children today, first of all, autism.
Autism used to be in the '70s, one in 2,500.
Now, in boys it's one in 34.
If you look at asthma, you look at diabetes, you look at mood disorders, we look at obesity,
we look at the other disabilities that we just kind of clump in as learning disabilities
or visual disabilities, auditory disabilities.
But children today are plagued with illnesses that shouldn't happen.
I used to tell patients, "You have a warranty into your 40."
Now I can't say that because our children are being plagued with so many illnesses that
if we, as women and men together, prepared for this wonderful miracle, the outcome would
be significantly different.
And they've actually done studies on this now.
So they're showing that the health of the mother is transmitted to the baby.
So I want you to listen in because this is valuable information.
Jordan: Absolutely.
And I know throughout history, native cultures had a special diet for the husband and wife
to be, the parents for a pre-conception type program, and they would eat certain foods
after they were married that were rich in nutrients, help the body detoxify.
So that's what we're going to talk about today.
So if you are someone of childbearing age or if you are trying to get pregnant or even
if you are pregnant, it's important to prepare your body for pregnancy.
And here's the good news, if they follow these tips, females are going to be healthy in general.
So we're going to get started right now.
Number one, Dr. Connealy, what is a pre-pregnancy detox?
What does this look like?
And give us some specifics.
Dr. Connealy: Well, people look at detox and they're just like all overwhelmed, "I'm not
going to feel good, this is going to be awful."
But actually just simple little measures.
First of all, we know that the toxins in the mother transmit to the baby.
They've done studies on this and proven this in the umbilical cord analysis.
So the first and foremost thing you can do is detox your mind.
Get your mind ready and be so happy, and joyous for this brand new miracle that's going to
happen.
Number two, you need to eat foods that nourish, strengthen, and heal your body.
Buying everything organic and fresh.
Do not buy things in a box that are packaged, there's so many chemicals on the label that
you can't read them.
So that's a simple little thing besides doing other things that you can do.
Like for example, you can do a liver cleanse, you can do infrared sauna, you can do skin
brushing, can do a kidney cleanse, you can do bath detoxes.
There're so many little things that you can do and guess what, not only are you going
to prepare for this incredible miracle that's going to happen but you are going to feel
amazing if you detox.
Jordan: Awesome.
And what we want to say is, we're going to talk about nourishing the body in just a moment,
but a pre-pregnancy detox could include, as you see on the screen, consuming juices.
Dr. Connealy mentioned a liver cleanse, wake up in the morning and simply squeeze half
a lemon into your purified water, that will begin to cleanse the kidneys, and the bowel,
and the lymphatic system.
And taking a detox bath, maybe Epsom salts and some essential oil of lavender.
Anyone can do that but especially someone who is looking to detoxify their body pre-pregnancy.
And you mentioned all the diseases that are on the rise in children.
Your child's life and health can depend on what you do.
Number two, nourishing your body.
So Dr. Connealy, tell me three foods that the women watching can consume that will help
nourish their body for pregnancy.
Dr. Connealy: Well, fats.
People think, "Oh, fat makes you fat."
No.
Actually, fat makes you thin.
And so the best fats, coconut oil, olive oil, avocados.
These are amazing fats and why do you need them?
Look, this is one cell and you have trillions of them.
And the wall of every cell in your body is made of fat so that's why you must eat the
fats.
The second thing is you need to eat lots of fruits and vegetables.
For example, green, green, green, broccoli, brussel sprouts, zucchini, he mentioned juicing
before.
I drink ten ounces of juice every single morning.
Because a lot of people are really not good at eating vegetables, but if you just do six,
eight different vegetables in a juicer or a blender, you're going to get them down and
they taste amazing.
And immediately, within 15, 20 minutes, you feel these active nutrients working in your
body.
The other thing that people don't really realize how magical, is spices.
Just adding spices, all different things, whether you do curcumin, you do rosemary,
you do sage, all of these different spices have unbelieveable . . . you can put like
five different spices in different things that you're making.
And so the food you eat . . . everybody wants energy today, right?
How are you going to have energy if you don't eat energy?
Jordan: That makes sense.
So we're talking about good fats.
We talked about coconut, we talked about avocado, we talked about omega-3 fats and fatty fish.
Number two, we talked about juicing particularly getting greens in your diet, and number three,
spices.
We mentioned the importance of multicolored spices and how powerful they are for protection
of the body both in the anti-oxidant potential and their ability to fight germs and fight
aging.
All right.
Address your personal environment.
So how does a personal environment affect a mother or mother-to-be and ultimately the
child?
Dr. Connealy: Well, everything, wherever you work or wherever that you live affects you,
okay?
First of all, indoor air pollution is worse than outdoor air pollution.
So we've got to do things that purify air.
You can do that with plants, you can do that with aroma therapy, and you can do that with
a purifier.
Now, also people don't think.
Almost everything that we come in contact has toxicity.
You sit on your sofa, you work in your kitchen, your water is toxic unless you buy a water
purifier which everyone should absolutely do.
Your foods, all the foods of lots of today's world have toxicity.
All the chemicals that women love to lather all over their body.
Your skin is your largest organ in your body and it's absorbing all of those things.
Think about when you're taking a shower, the showerhead.
Just think, there's all the pharma in the water today, pharmacology in the water, not
to mention the chlorine and fluorine.
So from the moment you wake up in the morning, being mindful of everything.
Now, I'm not saying you have to change everything overnight.
Little by little you can make changes.
Because a lot of people are so overwhelmed, "Oh my gosh, I've got to change everything
overnight."
No, little by little, just like how you store your food left over.
You should be using all glass.
What do you cook out of?
Do cook out of aluminum pans which we know is toxic?
Well, you've got to cook out of steal or out of, there's a company called Le Creuset that
is healthy for you.
So just start paying attention and educating yourself.
Education is power to change your life.
You understand the why, where, when, and how of what you're doing.
But this is a huge, huge thing and it's amazing, small changes make huge differences.
Jordan: Well, I'm Jordan Rubin here for Ancient Medicine Today brought to you by draxe.com.
And we're here with Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy, medical doctor, board certified in family
practice.
She runs a center for new medicine in Orange County, California, and you're getting a free
consult.
So if you're a woman out there who wants to prepare your body for pregnancy, you need
to tune in or send this to those you know and love.
I'm going to talk briefly, or I'm going to let you talk about mental preparation but
then I have a question for you that's not on our slides today that I think some people
might be thinking about.
Because we're talking all about preparing for pregnancy on behalf of our child.
We want healthier children, we want them to not struggle with diseases of the body, mind
or otherwise.
So this is really, really important.
You talked about detoxifying, nourishing the body.
We talked about addressing the personal environment which is really taking stock of everything
you have around you and on you.
Number four is mental preparation.
What role does mental preparation play in preparing your body for pregnancy?
Dr. Connealy: Well, today we know that how we think affects every single cell in our
body.
So whatever the story you're telling yourself every single second of every day, it's directing
the cells in the DNA.
It's actually affecting the energy of the water of the cells that bathe in your body.
So it's critical whatever illness, whether you're preparing for pregnancy or you have
something else, that how you think is how your body becomes, and you get what you expect.
So this is a miracle that's going to happen.
Literally, if you've never had children, you will understand that the first 24 hours after
that baby comes is the most amazing experience that you could possibly ever imagine and then
the days to come.
I have lots of children so I know that experience and if you talk to anyone who's had children,
it is outrageously life changing.
So you want to say, "You know what, I am so excited, I am so peaceful, I am so happy about
this miracle that's going to happen."
Because if you are frustrated, if you are stressed, if you are having marital discord,
you're having work problems, family problems, all of this information, its information gets
transmitted to the cells.
And happy thoughts make happy chemicals.
Jordan: That's awesome, and we know that when a woman is pregnant, especially for the first
time, there can be some fear and anxiety especially regarding a labor and delivery.
But we want to speak positive.
I really do believe that you speak what you want, not what you don't want.
I'm going to ask you a quick question.
We're talking about today preparing your body for pregnancy and there are women out there,
I guarantee you, that are saying, "I'd love to prepare my body for pregnancy but I haven't
been able to get pregnant."
So I just want to confirm that what we're sharing is also critical to fertility.
I think we're seeing an epidemic, if not a pandemic of infertility today.
I remember 10 or 15 years ago, somebody said that if we didn't have the help of medical
procedures, we would not necessarily be going extinct but we would almost be an endangered
species regarding how frequent infertility strikes us.
So would these principles we're sharing, or these keys, be effective for someone trying
to get pregnant who's had challenges?
Dr. Connealy: Well, that's a great point because they've just come out that fertility rates
have dropped about 50%.
And it's caused because we have something called endocrine disruptors.
Endocrine means hormone, hormone disruptors.
For example, plastics.
Plastics contained phthalates.
Phthalates are endocrine disrupters.
There are lots of endocrine disruptors in the environment.
There's hundreds of thousands of chemicals because they aren't allowed . . . they don't
necessarily test every single chemical and not to mention this synergistic potential
of all of these chemicals.
So they're wreaking havoc in our daily lives and in our bodies, not only in mothers, also
in infertility, and all of the illnesses that we're plagued with today.
Jordan: Wow.
So what we're saying is that not only will these keys help you prepare your body for
pregnancy on benefit of the child, on behalf of the child, but if you're someone who is
struggling with infertility, I've seen a lot of great results by balancing hormones and
removing what Dr. Connealy called endocrine disruptors.
So folks listen, if you're somebody out there who wants to prepare your womb or if you're
someone who just wants to be healthy enough to consider having a baby, don't wait till
you're trying.
Don't wait till you're pregnant.
Make sure that you prepare your body not only for the baby's sake but in order to have a
healthy baby.
So Dr. Connealy, why don't you, for the audience today, give a recap on four keys to prepare
your body for pregnancy.
Dr. Connealy: All right.
So first of all, start cleansing, start purifying your body.
There is single no greater thing that anyone can do whether you're preparing for pregnancy
or living every single day.
So start with that.
Start thinking about all the foods that you are eating.
How is it helping?
How is it making a phenomenal cell?
Then you've got to eat the foods, you've got to eat a rainbow of food.
You got to have great fats, great vegetables, good proteins.
And then you've got to look at everything in your environment from the time you wake
up, what are your thoughts?
Number two, how are you taking a shower, the water, your eating, how are you cooking, the
foods that you're eating, what are you storing your food in?
What is the air that you're breathing in?
And when you go to work, is the furniture outgassing chemicals?
But you can do things.
I tell hairdressers, "Listen, invest in a purifier in your salon if you're going to
be a hairdresser."
Then you've got to prepare your mind.
We all need to prepare our mind for whatever the outcome we're looking for.
So you can do it, I know you can.
Jordan: That's awesome.
So not only are we helping women of childbearing age prepare their body for a healthy pregnancy
but also preparing your body for a healthy life.
I bet Dr. Connealy that somebody who does a detoxification program nourishes their body,
addresses their personal environment, and mentally prepares has less chance of postpartum
depression, and takes off some of the baby weight.
Because these are things that women are concerned about.
Not only delivering a healthy baby but how am I going to look afterwards?
When am I going to get back in shape?
And so I think all of this can make a difference.
And I want to mention Dr. Connealy has a brand new book called "The Cancer Revolution" a
groundbreaking program to prevent and reverse cancer.
This book is not just for someone who's been given that dreaded diagnosis but it's for
anyone who wants to live a long and healthy life.
So Dr. Connealy, quickly, what will people learn from "The Cancer Revolution" and why
is it different than other cancer books?
Because there are several out there and this is, I believe, something you've been working
on for a long time, a bit of your life's work.
So tell the audience why someone can benefit from the cancer revolution for themselves
and for someone they love.
Dr. Connealy: Well, that's a great question because it is titled "The Cancer Revolution."
But there are pillars of health that we all need to follow and I didn't make the rules.
The rules are part of Mother Nature.
But all the things that I talk about in the book, whether it's the mind, whether it's
detox, whether it's exercise, whether it's sleep, water, all of this valuable information
and how to do it.
I talk about a whole category on juicing, whole category on eating and recipes.
So whether you have cancer or not, that is beside the point.
This is a book on how you get healthy, not if you get cancer, the cure for cancer is
prevention.
I talk about prevention in the book.
And then if you get diagnosed with cancer, you say, "Oh my gosh, what am I going to do?"
But people don't realize from one cancer cell to a tumor takes ten years.
That means we have ten years of health opportunity to prevent cancer.
But once you get it, you have to say, "Why did I get this diagnosis to begin with?"
And so you're going to unravel lots of different things.
Don't think that just surgery, chemo, and radiation is going to eradicate and eliminate
the cancer.
Because you never addressed how you got there to begin with.
Ten years of stuff, you're going to be unraveling for a little bit of time and the book tells
you how to restore health, harmony, and balance to your body.
Jordan: Excellent.
For more information visit www.connealymd.com.
I'm Jordan Rubin for Ancient Medicine Today with Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy.
She operates the Center for New Medicine in Orange County, California.
And we're going to do some upcoming programs throughout the next few weeks with Dr. Connealy.
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Thank you so much.
God bless you.
See you next time.