Episode summary
They're Lying About 'Healthy' Foods & Sugar! Shocking New Research That's Harming You
The Diary of a CEO
· · 1 hr 36 min · Hosts: Steven Bartlett · Guests: Jessie Inchauspé
Summary
Jessie Inchauspé argues that pregnancy nutrition can shape a baby’s long-term health through epigenetic programming, especially by influencing glucose, protein, and choline exposure in the womb. She says many mothers are not getting enough of key nutrients like choline, and that the common advice to “eat for two” or treat pregnancy as passive is misleading. In her view, a mother’s diet does not just support growth; it helps determine how the baby’s brain, metabolism, and disease risk develop.
A major theme is glucose control. Jessie says high sugar intake in pregnancy can raise a baby’s later vulnerability to diabetes, obesity, and psychiatric disorders, and she links gestational diabetes to inflammation that may affect brain development. She argues that fruit juice, especially orange juice, is often no better than soda because the fiber is removed, while protein and movement can reduce glucose spikes and cravings.
She also stresses practical steps: eggs for choline, more protein in the day, exercise during pregnancy, and avoiding alcohol. Breastfeeding, she says, may continue beneficial programming, but formula can still be nutritionally complete if it contains choline and omega-3s. Overall, she presents pregnancy as a high-leverage window where small dietary changes may have outsized effects on a child’s future health.
Key takeaways
- Jessie Inchauspé says pregnancy diet can epigenetically program a baby’s future risk of diabetes, obesity, and psychiatric disorders.
- She says 90% of moms are not getting enough choline and that four eggs a day is the simplest way to reach the target.
- She argues that high glucose in pregnancy is linked to gestational diabetes and may raise inflammation affecting fetal brain development.
- She says protein, walking, squats, calf raises, and eating vegetables first can reduce glucose spikes and cravings.
- She recommends avoiding alcohol entirely during pregnancy and keeping caffeine to low levels, with about two cups of coffee per day at most.
Notable quotes
“With your diet during pregnancy, you're programming your baby's DNA. And this is going to have an impact on your baby's development and on their future risk of disease”
“And so during pregnancy, you're putting these little switches on your baby's DNA. And this is going to have an impact on your baby's development and on his future risk of disease”
“The thing is if you don't eat enough choline your baby's brain is not going to get enough choline and this can have an impact on the development of your child”
“So when you drink alcohol during pregnancy, your blood alcohol level rises and then your baby's blood alcohol level in your uterus also rises”
“The best thing to do is to move your body. So get up, find a spot in your apartment that needs to be tidied”
How the episode opens
With your diet during pregnancy, you're programming your baby's DNA. And this is going to have an impact on your baby's development and on their future risk of disease. And there's a lot of pregnant moms who are eating a diet that's not giving them the nutrients their baby needs.
This is not the mom's fault. This is the fault of our food system. This is the fault of society.
And nobody's telling moms about this. And I wanted to create this guide to help parents navigate that food system and see easy things they can do to help their baby's development. And I know this because as a biochemist when I became pregnant, I just went deep, deep, deep into the research.
And there are some main things that I learned. For example, 90% of moms are not getting enough choline during pregnancy. And choline is super important.
It forms your baby's brain in the womb. So this is the amount of eggs that I ate per week during the 9 months of pregnancy because this is the simplest way to give enough choline to our baby. And then your baby needs no fructose during pregnancy.
So sugar from dessert, from chocolate, from muffins, from cupcakes, your baby needs none of this. Because if you have very high glucose levels during pregnancy, scientists have found that your baby's DNA will have epigenetic switches that are programming them towards having a higher vulnerability to develop diabetes, obesity, and psychiatric disorders. Next, this is basically the amount of protein that I needed to eat every single day in the third trimester of pregnancy.
Yeah. because the studies show low protein diets lead to smaller babies and potentially this epigenetic programming of staying smaller throughout life. And it's findings like that that led me to create a plan and simple hacks for pregnant moms and we can talk about them.
From the episode’s captions: roughly the first two minutes, lightly cleaned. Keep watching on YouTube →
Topics
- pregnancy diet
- blood sugar and insulin
- glucose spikes
- gestational diabetes
- food labels
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