Dr. Mark Hyman
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The baby's like six, seven pounds.
Like you don't need, you got a placenta, you got fluid, you got other stuff, but...
you know, sometimes women get 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 100 pounds, and they don't, like, there's a cultural framework that that's okay because you're pregnant.
And I think it's really a mistake.
It's really simple.
Balance your blood sugar, eat more protein, get choline and DHA.
Pretty simple.
Yeah.
No, I'm so glad you wrote it because, you know, as I said, I delivered 500 babies.
About what?
It was amazing.
I mean, I was a family doctor.
I got trained in a community hospital in Northern California where there was only family doctors.
I learned to do C-sections.
And then after my, and I actually was really interested in OB, even in an internship, I went to this small town in Sault Ste.
Marie, Canada, no, somewhere, I don't even know where it was.
I didn't remember the town.
It was a little town.
And it was 24-7.
I lived in the hospital and just, I basically barely slept and just delivered babies nonstop for a month.