Your baby’s health starts before conception.

Added: 2026-06-02

[00:00:00]If I had the opportunity to work with families before they even step through my door as a pediatrician, [music] we would have such healthier kids.

[00:00:07]>> Before trying to conceive, what are ways a woman can optimize her fertility, which will impact [music] health of baby? It's not just about mama, it's about papa, too. Psychological stress can cause as much disruption to our microbiome. [music] Can you talk about what epigenetics is?

[00:00:25]Epigenetics is really the idea [music] that despite the set of genes that we are born with, [music] we can change what influences our genes to turn off or on.

[00:00:38]>> How does somebody even know if they need [music] to optimize their microbiome?

[00:00:42]>> Low zinc levels in mamas can increase the risks of things like ADHD for your babies.