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Vitamins are absolutely essential for a healthy pregnancy: before, during, and after. Expectant parents want healthy babies and to more easily navigate pregnancy's many ups and downs. Problem is, standard prenatal vitamins don't come close to meeting the needs of all women. Nutritional (orthomolecular) physicians have known this for decades. Many women would benefit from an abundance of nutrients during pregnancy and the advantages are clear: healthy babies and happy moms.Helen Saul Case has lifelong experience with nutritional medicine, having been born and raised with it her entire life. Still, she found pregnancy challenging, with new aches, pains, and amazing symptoms "I couldn't have dreamed up if I tried." It became all too clear that how to best use high doses of vitamins to safely and effectively address health issues was conspicuously absent from the scores of pregnancy health books out there. It's time for a change!Vitamins & Pregnancy: The Real Story is a comprehensive, yet easily readable nutritional guide to optimal health -- for both you and your baby that tackles the topics other pregnancy books don't, including: * ?The many ways nutrition helps to ensure your baby's best development in utero -- with lifelong benefits for mother and child* ?How vitamin C helps prevent birth defects, postpartum hemorrhages, and even stretch marks; vitamin E helps prevent miscarriage; magnesium helps cramping legs and sore, aching backs; and extra vitamin B6 alleviates morning sickness -- without a prescription!* Optimal vitamin and mineral intakes during pregnancy and breastfeeding* What the research says about efficacy and safety* ?Nutrition-based advice to help alleviate more than 35 pregnancy issues, from acid reflux and yeast infections, to postpartum challenges -- including depression and losing weight
About the Author
Helen Saul Case is the author of The Vitamin Cure for Women's Health Problems, Vitamins & Pregnancy: The Real Story, and coauthor of Vegetable Juicing for Everyone. She is also featured in the documentary That Vitamin Movie (2016) .
Mrs. Case is Assistant Editor for the peer-reviewed Orthomolecular Medicine News Service and she has published in the Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine. She has written numerous articles on nutrition which have appeared in health magazines in several countries, and have been featured on many health advocacy websites. Her papers also appear in The Orthomolecular Treatment of Chronic Disease and The Vitamin Cure for Infant and Toddler Health Problems.
After graduating magna cum laude from Colgate University, Mrs. Case earned a master's degree in education from the State University of New York. She taught English for nine years, is a certified administrator, and worked as English department chair for four years. She currently lives with her husband and children in Western NY.
She is the daughter of Andrew W. Saul, who starred in the movie Food Matters and runs the world's largest noncommercial natural healing website www.doctoryourself.com. She can be found at her own website at www.helensaulcase.com and also on Facebook.
