Jessie Inchauspé
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first heard Sep 2024
last heard 1 Jun
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But the epigenetics, meaning the sort of programming of your baby's DNA, which genes are switched on, which genes are silenced, that has to do with your diet during pregnancy.
And that's the thing we don't tell moms.
We say, just eat for two.
Eat enough, and you're going to gain weight anyway, so you might as well eat more pancakes.
We're lying to moms.
What happens during pregnancy is very important for the health of their baby.
And the epigenetic data is interesting.
So we see in gestational diabetes that genes that encode for type 2 diabetes risk are higher in the babies of moms who had gestational diabetes.
And in animal studies, Mark, which is really interesting,
They see that when a mom eats a high-sugar diet during pregnancy in rats, even if she doesn't have diabetes, her baby has fat storage genes epigenetically activated.
So a high-sugar diet during pregnancy could also, in humans, be leading to this epigenetic switch, which means that your baby, from the moment he's born...
is more vulnerable to fat gain, to weight gain.
And it makes sense biologically because if you have a lot of sugar in the womb, your baby needs to convert that sugar into fat to protect himself from high sugar levels.
And that's one of the consequences of a high glucose diet is that you transform some of that glucose.
That's one of the reasons that high glucose levels lead to more fat gain because you're transforming that glucose into fat to protect yourself.
And so in these rat studies, we see that the children, the moment they're born,
They have this fat storage gene activated and they end up having more fat mass on their body than their peers, even if they eat the exact same diet from birth onwards.
Exactly.
And we need to tell moms about this.
We need to explain that epigenetics is something that you control.
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