One of the biggest health issues in America often starts earlier than we think with maternal health. Things like poor diet, high stress, lack of sleep, and exposure to toxins can have lasting effects not just on women, but on their future children too. More and more, we’re seeing links between a mother’s health before and during pregnancy and rising issues like anxiety, ADHD, and postpartum depression.

To make a real difference, we need to focus on supporting women well before they get pregnant. That means helping them build healthy habits around food, sleep, stress, and emotional well-being. Taking care of moms early on can lead to better outcomes for families and set the stage for healthier generations ahead.

Highlights of the Podcast

00:04 – Introduction & The Root Cause

01:35 – Who’s Having Babies?

03:34 – Scientific Examples: Diet & Toxic Exposure

05:05 – Prepping the Body for Pregnancy

06:32 – Breastfeeding & Nutrient Quality

08:01 – Mental Health and Emotional Wellness

09:44 – Sleep Apnea & Pelvic Floor Health

11:11 – Chiropractic Care During Pregnancy

12:37 – Why the System Ignores This

13:47 – Final Thoughts: The Real Fix

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:00:04] All right, so I got a question from questions at children's wellness.com that what, in my opinion, is the largest health issue that we're dealing with in America that no one's really talking about? Um, I don't know how many people are talking about it because I've made reference to this and I've talked about this a couple of times, but the biggest health issue that we have that is creating the biggest Health problem, the largest amounts of money that we are spending on health care or the biggest detriment to our society. Um, is the health of our women when they're getting pregnant, uh, which then directly translates into the health for the babies that are then born. Um, you'll ask me all the time where autism comes from and where ADD comes from, and all these issues come from. And people are like, it's the vaccines, isn't it? It's the vaccine that's causing all these problems. Um, and I'm going to get, God, I'm getting so much help for today's video. And the vaccines cause a lot of problems. Like I'm not trying to say the vaccines don't cause problems. They definitely cause a lotta problems. We've gotta really do more research on these and cut back if not eliminate a lot of the things that vaccine-wise that we're doing. However, when you look at the issue as a whole, when you at these women who are, if you're like, okay, who's having the most babies? We're looking at 20-year-olds and early 30-year olds. That's a pretty big chunk of the population that's having babies. who eats the most fast food, teenagers and 20 year olds, who's consuming the most diet drinks, teenagers, and 20 years olds,.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:01:35] What about energy drinks, same thing, who has the highest stress, who smokes the most, who much who drinks the most who, you know, has the most disrupted sleep, you know, that's that that's your segment of population that has that's consuming all these processed foods that it's dealing with all of these, all this massive amounts of stress and staring at their phones all day long and getting all that psychological stress. We have all this, you know, you look at today's, you know, kids and they've all got some type of psychological disorder, ADD ADHD, anxiety, depression, you know, bipolar, like what, you whatever, they've all got these things and they're getting pregnant and they're having babies. And then we're being like, well, once the baby, the super healthy, super perfect, you know, baby is born. Then we're injecting with toxin and that's what's causing the problem. I'm Again, not trying to say vaccines are not the issue or not an issue, but what you put in the mom while she's trying to develop this baby is 100% creating an issue, you know, if they're eating lots of seed oils, like there was a rate research study done with rats. Um, and what they did was they gave these, all these rats aspartame. So the same thing, it's in diet Coke and most of these diet drinks and a lot of other dietary products and, you Know, the low fat stuff. What we ended up seeing was that we produced a lot of anxiety in these rats. Um, you know, and it was like, okay, it was documented anxiety. Then they, then they researched the offspring of those rats after they quit giving them aspartame and they realized that the next rats also had anxiety and the rats three generations down did, they didn't go back to basically baseline until the fourth generation. What that shows us is that what goes into our, our, our mamas who are about to be mamas is super duper important. Um, there was a study, you know, you can watch this on smoking teeth.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:03:34] So just Google smoking teeth, um, and this is what they did was they took a bunch of sheep and monkeys and they gave them mercury amalgam filling. So those silver fillings that are mercury, they gave him those mercury fillings just like most dentists with dentists have done all the way up until now, lots of people switch over to, to composite, but they're still doing mercury filling. And they're still telling everybody that mercury fillings were totally fine. There's nothing wrong with them. Uh, and what they did was they, once they got the mercury in, they gave these animals a little bit of time, then they got them pregnant. And then when the babies were born, so the baby sheep, the baby monkeys, they tested the babies for mercury and found giant amounts of mercury all the way throughout these babies because it was leaching out of the teeth of the mother and it was going into the baby as they were being, you know, developed. And so if we really want to start changing the healthcare of our country, if we want to really start seeing these numbers of depression and obesity, you know, schizophrenia, ADD, ADHD, depression, anxiety, you know heart attack, strokes, dementia, like name all of them. All of them are tied to metabolic functional health and I can want to name anyone. I can walk you back through how it is directly tied to metabolic metabolic functional. Health. What we're going to end up seeing is that we've got us 100% start working on our 19 and 20 year olds before they get pregnant. So typically what we will do is about six months to a year before these women get pregnant, we'll clean up their body. And what we mean by clean up, their body is we'll fix their diet. So they're on a really, really clean, really, really solid diet.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:05:05] we will go through it's the, you know, it's it's lower glycemic, it's fat-based because guess what? Your baby's brain is made out of fat, the spinal cord fat, fat and folic acid. That's what these things are. Um you know your whole body requires fat and guess what mama's body requires that too. Like half this postpartum depression would never happen if we fed these women, right, who are trying to get pregnant. So we got to clean them up a little bit ahead of time, change their diet, get them on a really good, you know, whole food cleans zero or as close to zero processing as we can. We didn't get them down to there. We got to get their water intake up. Um, we got, I get their supplementation and so they're ready to go. So I like to sort of about six months before they want to get pregnant, um, and then once they get pregnant, you know, we can monitor nutrition function throughout. Um, you know, it's always funny because people say breast milk is best, you now I'll grant you that all the infant formula we have is legit toxic. Uh, I don't know if you guys are familiar with the use RFKs stork speed thing, um, or you got rid of all, he basically said all the formula in the United States is toxic to some degree, whether it has like cyanide or it's just highly toxic for lead or whatever, but they're all toxic. Um, and so even then we were like, well, we should only do breastfeeding. Well... What, if you put bad chemicals in mom, mom can only make bad breast milk, like I, I, get it. The body's amazing and it's wonderful and it a miracle.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:06:32] And that's a hundred percent true. But if you, put junk in it, it doesn't purify it and make it perfect. If you don't give it the chemicals it requires to make the things it needs to make it doesn' make the. Which is why our cholesterol plaques, which is why we get dementia, which is, why we, get diabetes, which was why we get all these diseases. Because the chemicals we're putting in the body are not the body, not what the body's designed to have. And so it starts failing. Well, that's going to happen with creation of baby as well and feeding baby breast milk as well. So if you don't have those chemicals where they're supposed to be, we're going to have an issue. Now, the other thing that we've got to really make sure we're doing a good job of is we've gotta make sure that the emotional state of mom before, during, and after pregnancy is really, really good because, and we've talked about this a couple of times, but your emotions run your entire body. Like they make every, like, you can't fake, you know, you can hide when you're really happy, you now, and you can not hide when your really sad. Like, we can just see it on you. Your whole demeanor changes, all your chemistry changes, everything changes. And so we've got to really make sure that there's psychological functions where it needs to be as well, because guess what? The things that make you look sad, make you look happy, those are inundated in baby too. So what I always like to do is we do a little bit of NLP beforehand, but we do the five negative emotion release. So at least some of those things that are bound in us, the fear, hate, anger, guilt, those things get released so that we're at least a little bit better off going forward.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:08:01] And then we do some like, you know, education on perception as projection and, you now filter function and stuff like that, and gratitude and something like that so that, we maintain a high end, high emotional, positive emotional state all the way through the pregnancy. Because we have to start really focusing on not just what happens once the baby's born, what chemicals we're sticking in it then we've got to really focus on what chemicals are in mom to begin with, what toxins are in mom, what nutrients are in, mom, that the mom can then give to baby. One of the reasons, not the only reason, but one of the reasons we see such high postpartum depression is because she's out of nutrients, they completely out of nutrients. And we're like, we have no idea why she's so depressed. She should be happy that she has this baby now. It's just so weird that she's depressed. No, it's not. She's completely out of the nutrients her body requires to run. That's what's going on. So, you know, as we start looking back at this stuff, it pretty obvious that this is one of the major things we need to do. Now the question comes up, well, then how come everybody else isn't talking about this? Probably because most 20 year olds don't have a whole lot of money to throw at this. So, it is easier to charge the guy who has dementia, you know, $50,000 to fix his dementia than it is to charge, you video. a 25 year old for grand to get her all the way ready for pregnancy. So, you know, that's kind of, I think where a lot of this is, I can't imagine that everybody else doesn't recognize and see that if mom doesn't have the chemicals she needs to build baby, baby's going to build be built out of whatever she has. And the idea that your baby is 10 fingers, 10 toes and crying must be a hundred percent healthy. No, not at all. That's not that's that's wrong.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:09:44] There's a lot of, there's a lot wrong in that. Um, you know, one of the other big things we see is that, so what happens with women when they get pregnant, they get larger, right? Some of them get quite fat. Some of the get quite large. Um, that induces sleep apnea. What happens when we don't have oxygen? Oh, that's really bad for the brain. What if we're building a brain? Is it bad for a brain you're trying to build? Yeah, it's really bad for that too. Yeah, but nobody talks about sleep apnea. Nobody talks about the snoring. Nobody talks about all the organ movements and stuff like that. And mom, like how many people are like, how many people who have kids, have you moms, how many of you people had somebody check your sleep when you're, you know, while you were, let's do a sleep study while you're pregnant. How many people looked at your pulse ox, your oxygen saturation, but not many of them. How many of them taught you to do the exercises required to build your pelvic floor up so that one, you could have a solid, healthy vaginal birth. and two you would recover from it. Like I talk about this a lot, like the reason that women pee on themselves, like 30 year old woman, 28 year old women, I see them in the office. And they're like, yeah, when I jump or when I laugh, I pee myself a little bit, I have since I gave birth, that's a weak pelvic floor. That's super easy to fix. The fact that we're letting women, you know, have a baby, get pregnant and have a Baby and not teaching them simple pelvic floor exercises that are critical for the birthing process is beyond me. One of the other big things and we don't do a whole lot of this and like I would 100% if you're, if you are pregnant or you're about to get pregnant,.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:11:11] One of the number one things you guys need to do is look up ICPA that's International Chiropractic Pediatrics Association and find a good pediatric pregnancy chiropractor. I hired one to take care of my wife while she was pregnant and to help my kids when they got born. Dr. Kelly Beirne and Dr. Dasha Ellucian. I don't know if that's still her last name, Dr. Dasha, she got married. They were phenomenal and they're still phenomenal. If you guys are looking for pediatric chiros, look them up. It's, oh my gosh, I just forgot. Forever Young Chiropractic. Wow, that was, they're gonna kill me for that. Anyway, Forever Young chiropractor, if you guys were around, look at them up, find a good pediatric pregnancy chiropractor because if you're pregnant, you're not moving the way you should because all your stuff is changing, like your hips and your pelvis and your knees and all that stuff. You need to get adjusted because if that function and movement doesn't happen right, It's bad for baby too. Um, when my son was born, his head was all misshapen because my, he got my head, he's a giant head. And so it didn't go through the birth canal as easily as it could have. And I'm pretty sure he's going to end up with my hairline. So Kelly reshaped his head so we didn't have to use a helmet. She reshaped it and it's now perfectly round. It's phenomenal. She did an amazing job at that. I wouldn't even try to do that. I would just send you to Kelly for that. Um but those are some of the things like we've got to really, if we really want to focus on turning America's health around. We got to start with the mom before she gets pregnant.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:12:37] So the babies that are born are healthier to start with, that's going to be one of those things that we're going to have to recognize as something we're gonna have to do. Uh, and it's not super difficult. And it's actually not super expensive because again, when young people decide to do stuff, they usually do it pretty well. And so a lot of these women that we've worked with, and I'm like, you guys start exercising. They're like, deal. And they go and they do it. And I'm like, are you going to change your diet? Deal. Like I've like, it's so cool when you get a hold of a young person who's motivated to do What's up? This is why I love working with 18 year olds who want to get in shape and stuff like that, because you're like, do these things and they go deal and they go do them, you can be like, I need you to eat a handful of grass and three stones and they're like deal, I'll go do that, you know? And so these women, you're like, okay, here's what I need you to do. How do you like yoga? How do you like Pilates? How do you like, you know, weightlifting? And they're like, Oh, I can do those things. Like, great. Here's a simple plan to build up to it. Okay. Fantastic. You know, especially when they learn that they're going to look better and feel better, and then the chances of them getting their body back. after they have the baby is much higher if they're already working out, they're usually motivated to do it. But the other thing is that most of the women, at least the women I've worked with, who are trying to have a family, they want a healthy family. They want healthy babies. The husbands want healthy families. They want health babies.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:13:47] And they for sure want their wives to be healthy as they go through this. Because guess what guys, if your wife is healthy and her emotions are where they're supposed to be beforehand, and she's on the right diet, she has a much better pregnancy. She's much happier. She's much less crazy And after she gives birth to the baby, she's much better. We don't have to worry about the postpartum depression. And here's the biggest thing. If you have healthy kids, they're cheaper to have long-term than if you have unhealthy kids. So the small investment now is pretty easy to go through to the future. So if there's that one thing that everyone's like, what should we be doing? This is the thing. We should be taking much better care of our to-be-pregnant moms. And like I said, I like to start six months through a year beforehand. So if you guys have friends who are thinking about having babies, if you're thinking about, having babies or whatever, get ahold of us and I'll kind of walk you through how to kind of clean it all up and get yourself better. Um, for a lot of you, it's not gonna be that hard. It's gonna be like, how much are you drinking? Okay. We'll cut back on that a little bit. How much sugar are you eating? Okay. We're going to deal with this. You know, we're going increase the, you know, specific fats and we're going to get your supplementation lined out and a lot that supplementation isn't very hard. Um, I brought in a bunch of extra stuff just for this. So that we have like, for instance, our Coke, you 10 is going to have vitamin A and vitamin E in it now. So you can take one pill and get a ton of stuff in it. Um, good solid levels as well.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:15:10] So this is probably the biggest thing. Um, if you haven't heard people talk about this, then I would a hundred percent share this video with everybody else because they probably haven't hurt it either. Um, and if you're like, Oh man, my kids are seven or eight or 10, like mine are 10 and 12. You're like I missed it. All right. Well, don't let your friends miss it. Don't let everybody else miss it, you know, share it with all your people so that they can share it was somebody who maybe has somebody who's in that age range, you know, if you go to, if you're going to church, you give this to the people, your church to have them pass down. Um, and if any of you guys have churches or groups that wants me to come speak about health, I would be more than happy to come give the information because that's kind of my, it's why I do the podcast. That's, I want to get this information out. My, I feel like my job is to spread the physiological message, you go tell everybody that they can be healthy if they just return their bodies back to original design and put what's supposed to be in your body again, and get what you're supposed to be out of your body out. So, you know, if you guys have any of that stuff, hit us up. Um, I'd love to give you guys some, some tips on that one. Uh, if anything else, uh, get hit us at pillars of wellness.com. Drop them in the comments. We'll, uh talk to you there. Thanks for your time. Have a great weekend.

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