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What you need to know to help you and your baby manage stress
Stressed out? Carolyn Dean explains how magnesium can help you as well as your baby feel better. Here are eight useful pointers ranging from stress effects to modifying your diet. And yes, healthy eating is key to protecting your body from the exposure to stress.
1. The constant stress of pregnancy increases the secretion of the stress hormones adrenaline and adrenal cortisone. The excess secretion of adrenaline causes a deficiency in the anti-stress mineral – “magnesium” and a deficiency of magnesium magnifies stress.
2. Feelings of nervousness, irritability and being unable to relax are signs of needing magnesium. If you think your baby does not feel or respond to your emotional state and fluctuations in your mood, think again. Many studies suggest the existence of prenatal perception and memory storage. Imitative abilities have been discovered in premature and full term babies only minutes old.
3. Clinical trials have demonstrated that mothers supplementing with magnesium have larger, healthier babies and lower rates of pre-eclampsia, hypertension, edema, seizures, premature labor, sudden infant death, and birth defects, including cerebral palsy.
4. Today’s diet of highly processed foods does not give you the nutrients and minerals you and your baby need to defend against physical and emotional stress and the lack of sufficient magnesium weakens your ability and your baby’s ability to manage stress. It is estimated that most American women do not get the RDA of magnesium making 75% of women deficient in this anti-stress mineral.
5. Magnesium is a necessary assist in labor and delivery. Old time midwives used to advise all their patients to take “the salts”; they were magnesium salts which act to relax muscles and relieve stress, making pregnancy more comfortable and labor less painful for both mother and child.
6. Avoid processed foods, educate yourself on nutrition, eliminate stress from your life as much as possible and supplement your diet with the natural anti-stress mineral – magnesium.
7. One of the most absorbable forms of magnesium is a powdered magnesium citrate chloride that is taken with hot or cold water.
8. To further enrich your diet with magnesium, cut cravings and impulsive eating – increase your consumption of green vegetables, nuts, seeds, legumes and unprocessed grains.
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About the Author: Carolyn Dean MD ND, is the Medical Director of the Nutritional Magnesium Association. She is known as ” The Doctor of the Future” and is not only a medical doctor, but also a naturopath, herbalist and acupuncturist. She has authored 16 books including The Yeast Connection and Women’s Health, IBS for Dummies and The Magnesium Miracle.
