Dr. Mark Hyman

Yeah, I mean, one of the biggest things, you know, that doctors check for is gestational diabetes.

At 28 weeks, you get a blood sugar test where they give you this two Cokes, equivalent of sugar, basically.

And you drink it and you raise your blood sugar, you know, an hour and two hours after.

And it's amazing how many women have blood sugar dysregulation.

And it's a sign that they're already kind of on their way to insulin resistance.

And the problem in America is that 93% of us have some degree of that, right?

75% overweight, but 93%, even if you're thin, you could have sugar issues.

And, you know, we have now, you know, one in two people in America with prediabetes or type 2 diabetes.

But I think it's actually more than that because I think the criteria are too strict, actually.

I just want to stop you there because, you know, what you're talking about is epigenetics, and most people may not know what that means.

I'm going to just take two seconds to summarize it, but you've got 20,000 genes, more or less.

How do genes work?

They have to be expressed, so the gene has to be turned on or off.

And there's a mechanism for that, which is the epigenome, which is a regulator of which genes get turned on or off, depending on what you do.

And they have massive influence on

on our health.

And what has come out in the research, which is quite stunning, it's not just about diabetes, everything.

So cancer, heart disease, diabetes, everything that is happening inside the womb that the baby's exposed to, we call it the exposome, is influencing the epigenetic programming that's laid on top of your genome that determines the health outcomes of the baby

When they're 20, 30, 40, 50.

So it's really important.