This exploration delves into the crucial steps women should take before, during, and after pregnancy to ensure their health and the health of their baby. It emphasizes the importance of physical preparation through targeted workouts, including strengthening the pelvic floor and core muscles. Proper nutrition is also highlighted, with a focus on debunking common myths about dietary restrictions during pregnancy. The discussion underscores the need for a well-rounded approach, including mental health preparation, to provide the best possible environment for both mother and child.

Additionally, the significance of chiropractic care is addressed, particularly in managing the physical strain that can arise from pregnancy and childbirth. Advocates for early planning and proactive health measures, such as detoxification and nutrient optimization, are emphasized to prevent common post-pregnancy issues. The message encourages consideration of these essential factors to support a healthier, more resilient pregnancy experience.

Highlights of the Podcast

00:03 - Pregnancy Workouts
00:49 - Post-Pregnancy Issues
01:58 - Strengthening the Body
03:05 - Nutrition During Pregnancy
03:57 - Diet Myths
04:55 - Vaccine Caution
05:56 - Physical Strain Post-Pregnancy
07:50 - Chiropractic Care for Babies
08:43 - Nutrient Deficiency and Mental Health
11:38 - Pre-Pregnancy Preparation
13:47 - Planning Ahead

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:00:03] So I know that people have been told, they shouldn't work out when they're pregnant. I know this because I get told this whole time, there's going to be someone that's actually probably watching. However, the vast majority of you should be. In fact, like, we do a lot of pregnancy, perhaps we'll clean the body up or detox everything. We'll pull out all the trash. Fill your body with nutrients, design the workout. Mix your hormones where they're supposed to be. And most importantly, we'll clear out your mind, kind of go through some, coping mechanisms and the ability to deal with function in your brain to deal with stress a lot better. But one of the big things we always do is we give workouts before, before you get pregnant, during pregnancy, a for after pregnancy.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:00:49] It's hilarious to me when I see you. And I see this all the time. I see 28 year old women who come in here who pee on themselves a little when they laugh, or when they drive them down. Because they, they had a baby, and they're told by their origins and by the pediatricians and other medical staff, obviously, that that's normal and not to worry about it. And sooner or later it'll go away. Blah. That's the worst advice you can take. I know, shocking. You got bad physiology advice from a medical doctor. You need to train beforehand. I see this all the time. I've seen car wrecks. I've seen really weird. Terrible, sports injuries. There is nothing I've seen that destroys a woman's body like having a baby. So first, thank you for the babies. But secondly, you guys need to train for it. You know, you wouldn't decide to just wake up, you know, on a Sunday morning and go. I'm gonna go run a marathon today. You can probably get through it, but it's not good for you. It's not a good idea. You have to strengthen the pelvic floor. You gotta strengthen the musculature that stabilizes the pelvis. That allows the musculature of the birthing process to happen.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:01:58] You know, we've got lots of low back issues. We have lots of hamstring issues. We have a lot of, you know, Kegel exercise functions that the entire pelvic floor needs to be strengthening. You know, there's a lot of really easy things to do. You know, you can build up to. So you've got what? Squats, double leg squats. You build up to single leg squat to strengthen that whole the whole function planking. You know, there's, the Kegel exercises. There's a bunch of things that you guys can do. Adductor abductor work. So it's the inner thigh and the inner thigh. There's a lot of things that you guys can do to prepare yourself for, you know, being pregnant, carrying a child, and giving birth. You know, a retrospective for, like, low back stuff, abs stuff, oblique work. The other thing that you always have to remember is I get women who come in all the time after they've had a child and they're carrying extra fat. Because no one taught them how to eat properly. And so they're like, well, I was supposed to eat more, so I ate a lot, and now I'm fat. Well, you shouldn't have gotten fat like gain. You have to gain weight because you're growing a child.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:03:05] So you're the difference is going to weigh something. The fluid generation thing. And obviously the baby's gonna weigh something. So you're gaining 15 to 35 pounds is totally fine because most of that's baby in waterways. And so as soon as you give birth, you're down 18 to 30 pounds. If you look at like my kids, my kids were 10 pounds. You know, placenta is about 10 pounds loads, 4 or 5 pounds. So there's 25 pounds right there of just baby. And pregnancy stuff. So yeah, you're going to gain weight, but when you come off through like oh my metabolism is all screwed up. You know, this and this and this. Well, it's probably because your diet was trash, because no one taught you how to actually eat half the stuff that they tell you not to eat and they should be terribly afraid of, you know, when you're pregnant, soft cheeses, sushi, you know, like, oh, you can't have that. You know, five women who told me that their doctor told them not to eat nuts. My fat. Yeah. So?

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:03:57] So, France, the entire Middle East. You know, Italy. They all eat soft cheeses when they're pregnant. Apparently, those babies are not being born. I don't I guess that's the thing. You know, all of Asia, you, Japan that eat sushi all the time. You know, where babies are being developed. Apparently. That's that's not a thing either. You still have to worry about the cleanliness. You know how much mercury is in your food. You know how much toxic waste is in your food, all the chemicals that are in your food and things like that. Because we actually worry about that during pregnancy, because are developing a brain that is hyper sensitive to these things. Very, very, very afraid of any vaccines that you're taking while you're pregnant. The the goal of a vaccine is to cause systemic, which is entire body inflammation. And total body includes the brain. And if it includes your brain, it includes baby's brain. And so as you're going through that, be very, very, very cautious of vaccines. Especially because most of the vaccines, the things you're told are lies.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:04:55] But the biggest thing about it is that you've got to strengthen the body, you've got to build this. You've had to build the pelvic floor, you build it the, the core function so that you have. Have this strength, this resilience to bounce back. You know, if you're like, hey, you're going to go from wherever you are when you get pregnant or when you have the baby, you're going to lose 20% of functionality and you have very little functionality to begin with. You're in, you're in a big place. You're in a bad, bad place. You know, I hate to say this, but you're gonna be bending over a crib a lot. You know, I see tons and tons and tons of low back issues from women actually giving birth because they're picking up a 15, 20 pound baby because those things grow, from a crib. So they get this bar that can stay here. So you have to bend over to weigh. You have to bend over. You got to grab a grab a weight and then lift it directly up with using pretty much your only your low back. You have the exact thing you like. Don't lift with your low back. That's having a baby. And if you haven't, if you don't know that, you know up front. Congrats. Now you do. Like that's a massive issue.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:05:56] And so a lot of times pregnant women are women who just given birth. Even the guys come in and they're like, man, my back's all screwed up and picking up a baby or holding the baby in this weird way. It's like that. So, you know, getting adjusted throughout can be a big baby, big important thing. And on that one, I can do it. But the best thing to do is find a pediatric and pregnancy chiro like they are specifically trained, you know, find three who's Espa certified, who's done the Webster stuff like that. Knows that stuff like that's that's what I did when my wife got pregnant. I went out and hired one of those docs to come work in my office to take care of my wife. It's always funny, cause you were like, I've heard people tell me they're like, well, you know, you get it for free because they're in your office. No, I hired one to come take care of my family. This just I let everybody else get taken care of as well.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:06:45] That was that was my mindset. It was like, I'm going to do the very best thing for my wife and for my children, and I'm going to get, you know, the very best care I can get, which was not something I could provide because it wasn't my specialty. So I went out my family. So Doctor Kelly Beard and Dasha, were phenomenal. And I, you know, I think it's for every guy in chiropractic. I think that I don't know if they change their name, but the social was a little bit different like myself, but it's forever gone. So just Google Doctor Kelly Beard PR any phenomenal, phenomenal doc. She actually reshaped my kid's skull. So on the other side of that, don't put your kids in a helmet. I need a pediatric chiro who can reshape their skull, because the chances my kids are going to be bald are pretty high. And so it was really important for me that their their heads were shaped right. And when Zane was born, my oldest, he looked like a Klingon. Like no joke, like his. This was pushed up like we hit a giant cranial ridge. Like it wasn't like a I think I see something, it was like, oh, you can like, it's massive. Like it was, it was not good. And it was all lumpy. And Kelly reshaped his head is beautiful now.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:07:50] So, if you guys are, if you have granddaughters, if you have daughters, if you are the person who's thinking about getting pregnant, you need to do a lot of work. There's a lot of heavy metals, there's a lot of toxicity. There's a lot of trash in our world. You need to get pulled out of you, and then you need to fill your body with nutrients, specifically the methylated version of all these things. There's so many of these, prenatal like that don't have enough nutrients to begin with. But they're, they're not methylated. So if you see something with folic acid, get away from it. You need methyl tetra hydrophobic. You need a fully methylated version. You need methyl COBOL. I mean, you know, you need methylated B 16 all of the methyl B vitamins. Yeah. There's there's brands out there who are doing a good job. But here's the other piece. You need more than 100% because you need to fill mom up with all the nutrients, mommy. But you also need to leave enough nutrients for baby.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:08:43] And the problem is, is that most women in America are nutrient deprived themselves. And so you need to fill mom up with nutrients then. So baby. But again, you know, outside the chemistry, you're going work on the mind. You know everyone agrees that mental health is super important. Like there's like this is one of the things we can all agree on. And I always ask people, great, we all agree. What are you doing for your mental health? And people go, well, you and I have nothing. So they are talk therapy. Psychotherapy is great. I, I, we use NLP a lot, which is a way that we can kind of teach the, the brain, the body to actually kind of function. And it's like a different way of looking at something, but it also helps you learn more about yourself, you know, do you learn things best from reading them, from from watching them, from listening to them and doing them? Like, how does your brain take in information and how do you then utilize it? Because once you figure out, oh, I'm very visual, when you start working on your problems in your head, you need to learn to visualize them so that you can deal with them best.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:09:48] If you're auditory, you need to listen to your problems you can deal with. And that again, how do we bring in information? And if we don't, if we lean into the things that are we're already wired to do, we can do a lot of things to start breaking these things apart. The stress, the psychological stress, the emotional stress that you have as a mom while you're pregnant is directly going into baby. Because if you look at it, you're like, well, when I get stressed out, cortisol rises, right? Okay. Again, cortisol is not the bad guy. The psychological sympathetic stress issues are, but all the chemicals that are negative from sympathetic stress are now invading all the lack of parasympathetic functions, the lack of digestion, lack of, you know, absorption. All that stuff, again, affects babies. And so if we don't start understanding and recognizing that we need to start working on mom's mental state before she gets pregnant to the best possible outcome for baby, we're still spinning our wheels. Like we start looking at all the problems we have with our kiddos. You know?

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:10:45] You know all the things we can do to make them better. Yeah, we talked about taking iodine because there's there's research that shows that it increases IQ. If you are jumping up and down. I got your good and I got you, I got you. Great. What are you doing for your mental state? What are you doing for your stretch? What are you doing for your nutritional deficiencies? What are you doing for your physical body? For exercise so that you can carry baby baths. So you're lymphatics removing the bars so your blood is as clean as possible. So they can provide the best possible manufacturing facility for baby. Where's your oxygenation at night. Are you breathing at night? We had a sleep study. There's a lot of women that we've tested who are in their 20s, who look fat, who aren't breathing as well as they should be. They've got a little bit of apnea. And there's lots of reasons we get apnea. So, yeah, there's a lot of issues that we need to kind of deal with the idea of, you know, you want to have a baby, just have sex, you're pregnant, and everything will be fine. You know?

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:11:38] Not really necessarily the best option. You know, worst case in your best case scenario is that mom's not physically ready for it. So she gives birth, she has trouble walking, she signs off a little bit, but, you know, things are okay. She suspects she can't get rid of, and the the which isn't this is not accurate. But what most people will tell you is that the fat you don't lose between baby one and baby two is yours to keep forever. Not entirely accurate, but not 100% wrong either. So it's always easiest to go back to baseline and then build back up. So, you know, if you guys are thinking about having babies, really, really consider putting yourself up ahead of time. You know, pulling the parasites out, pulling the yeast down, pulling the heavy metals out beforehand. Definitely get your silver fillings out if you guys have any. Because those are mercury laden. Look at the video Smoking teeth. They did a video where, they took, sheep and monkeys and they gave them silver fillings, and then they got them all pregnant. And I took the babies out, and I they took a look at the babies and all the babies, baby sheep, baby, maybe monkeys or full of mercury, because silver fillings aren't silver. They're mercury.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:12:47] And so the heavy metals went directly into the kiddos. So things like this, there's a lot of cleanup that I would recommend to you guys. Do, start thinking about a little bit, and really, really get those nutrient levels up. If you guys have methylation issues, like, you know, if you're going to do a jack test, do a big methylation test, don't just check in for air, check in on people we like, checked all of the ones that are maybe critical for development of a baby. If your doctor doesn't know what those are. Find somebody who does. And get those things tested because, you know, it's a lot easier to do work up front and then allow your body to build the best you can build and then go from there from a health standpoint, than it is to try to chase down all the issues that we leave ourselves with by not doing the prep work ahead of time. So, you guys have any questions for the questions at home or Swanscombe drop dropping in the comments. Or you guys swing swinging. You know, do consult and figure out how we can help you that way.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:13:47] So anyway, if you're getting it pregnant, if you're, you know, even if you're, you're just starting, you're pregnant, there's a lot of things you guys can do to help out. I will tell you that, you know, by the time you know, you're pregnant, the biggest piece of the needing of folic acid has passed. The brain and spinal cord form in the first couple days. It's formed in what's called the neural tube. And it's highly dependent upon methylated, folic acid, because that's what builds the brain and spinal cord. So, make sure you guys are getting your stuff in ahead of time. And, you know, if you're going to plan it out, that's the way to do it is make sure that you guys have all the nutrients you can all the way out, and you start exercising. So you get the blood, the limbs cleaner and you the muscle musculature you need to help, baby. So, the big thing, make sure you plan for it. Make sure you work it. So thanks for your time.

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