Dr. Elissa Epel
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first heard Nov 2024
last heard 23 Jun
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within that first two-month period when women were getting weekly training together in mindful eating and mindful stress reduction, that their glucose became much more normalized.
They had reductions in impaired glucose tolerance during pregnancy than women in the control group.
And then we followed these women out through their pregnancy.
And my colleague, Nikki Bush, followed the babies for another eight years.
And that was quite remarkable because we found that not only did the women benefit in stress and depression and metabolic health, but that every year later, all the way up to eight years later, they remained lower in depression and stress.
And their babies came out with more stress resilience in their own nervous systems.
When they were stressed out in the lab, they recovered more quickly.
Yes, that's the big question.
And we absolutely need to...
study this further to really understand the mechanisms, but we're so excited.
We know that the benefit is high of this group training and the risks of it are low or non-existent.
And so it's so important for hospitals and healthcare systems to know about
not just offering mindfulness for stress reduction, but for this very critical period for pregnant women, that this is potentially creating tremendous neuroplasticity in the mom's brain.
And eventually it looks like in the developing fetus, as you said, we just don't know exactly
What led to all these benefits?
So the mom is creating an intrauterine environment that's healthier, less metabolic stress, less physiological stress in terms of her perceived stress being lower.
Her physiological stress is then presumably lower.
Her glucose is at a much more healthier level during those months of development.
So there was that prenatal priming or...
period of critical development that may have contributed to some of the offspring benefits.
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