Optimizing Preconception, Prenatal & Postpartum Health Flashcards
What is Lochia?
Extended bleedig that happens during recuperation after a woman has gone through post-birth
What is the preconception phase?
The few months before conception occurs.
What are the 3 Ps of Pregnancy?
- Preceonception
- Prenatal
- Postpartum
What is the preconception phase?
The rough time frame of 6-12 months before conception.
Why is the preconception time frame so important?
It has a huge impact on the genes that will pass down to our children.
Can genes be altered through our nutrition and environment?
Yes
What are eipgenetics?
The study of how your behaviors and environment can cause changes that affect the way your genes work.
Can you physically add or delete genes within hyour body?
No, but you can control the way that they are expressed, that is if they are turned “on” or “off”.
Each person has roughly BLANK genes, and each of these genes codes for certain proteins, delegating what aspects of a person’s genetic health are functional or dysfunctional, according to the health and status of the gene itself.
20,000 - 30,000
BLANK in genes are often what are passed down family lines, leading people to be predisposed to certain pathological conditions.
Mutations
True or False: Although a person may have a genetic mutation, it does not guarantee that the mutation will indeed express itself, and result in whatever dysfunction it codes for, such as breast cancer.
True
How these genes are expressed — whether they are mutated or not — largely boils down to a person’s BLANK
Internal and external environment.
What does the epigenome do?
It not only control how our genes function in the present day but also what genetic coding gets will pass down to our children, that is, how their genes will be expressed and affect their lives.
What is Epigenetic Inheritance?
The epigenome is said to not only control how our genes function in the present day but also what genetic coding gets will pass down to our children, that is, how their genes will be expressed and affect their lives. There are even some theories that the epigenome may have 2 an impact on our grandchildren’s lives as well
Can the epigenome be rewired?
Yes it can, allowing you to pass down the best genetic inheritance to your children as possible, giving them a quality start at life.
What is a common theory of why certain predispositions are so prevalent within families?
Because families often share the same lifestyles — that means, they have similar nutrition & lifestyle habits that continually program those predisposed genes to be expressed, resulting in disease.
What does dialing in one’s nutrition and lifestyle habits 6-12 months before planning to conceive do?
It allows them the chance to reprogram their Epigenetics, but it is also important for dialing in hormone balance, priming egg and follicle health for a healthy conception and implantation, and for promoting a healthy pregnancy, birth, and postpartum experience.
Is it accurate that it takes 90 days for an egg to mature?
No
What is Oogenesis?
The technical term for the development of egg cells (oocytes). There are certain stages an oocyte must go through to mature for ovulation, which interestingly enough, mostly occurs before a girl is even born.
True or False? There are certain stages an oocyte must go through to mature for ovulation, which interestingly enough, mostly occurs before a girl is even born.
True
When does the process of Oogenesis occur?
The process begins 2 weeks post-conception and by birth all of a female’s oocytes are partially matured, resting in a dormant state until puberty.
Each oocyte has a follicle in which it will ovulate, which are considered BLANK (primordial) until they are recruited for development.
Immature
What is Fulliculogenesis?
At puberty, and each cycle moving forward, a certain amount of primordial follicles become recruited to undergo their final stages of development.
How long does Fulliculogensis take?
This development process takes roughly an entire year to perform.
When does the primary follicle initation of dormant primordial follciles begin?
Roughly 150 days before ovulation (about 5 months).
Where does the 90-day theory come from?
The 90-days it takes for the pre-antral follicles to develop through to ovulation, not the eggs.
At what point does the oocyte complete meiosis to become fully mature enough to ovulate?
Once the pre-ovulatory follicle is selected.
Why is it important to haVe a healthy corpus luteum formation?
For producing progesterone, a necessary hormone for facilitating a healthy pregnancy.
Even though a woman’s eggs are mostly mature before birth, there is still a BLANK stage of development that happens each cycle.
Second
Although brief, this stage is very important for ensuring chromosomal health and embryo development.
What is meiosis?
The second stage of development that the oocyte endures, which is a process requiring plenty of quality ATP (adenosine triphosphate) production from healthy mitochondria.
It is the process of chromosomal division within the egg
When does the second stage of meiosis occur?
It happens at fertilization, dividing the chromosomal copy in half yet again, leaving the egg with only one copy of each (23 total), with the second chromosome copy to be delivered by the sperm (resulting in 46 total — necessary for human development).
When does the first stage of meiosis occur?
While developing during gestation (meiosis 1), which is then stalled in what’s called a “primary oocyte” state until puberty, and is then completed right before ovulation, leaving the egg with two copies of each chromosome (46 total) — now called a “secondary oocyte”.
Female chromosomal errors can be developed either in BLANK or leading up to BLANK, suggesting that through preconception awareness, one may be able to improve the egg’s environment and provide sufficient energy to the egg so that it can undergo meiosis properly and avoid the potential for chromosomal errors.
Gestation or ovulation
What is spermatogenesis?
Sperm also go through a similar meiosis process while they are developing in the testes
Therefore it is just as important for men to optimize their mitochondrial health as well so that they can deliver the healthiest sperm with prime chromosomal quality.
What is one of the most important factors in proper meiosis and chromosomal delivery? Why is that?
Mitochondrial health
Mitochondria are very sensitive to inflammation and oxidation. When they are damaged due to these factors, they may not perform as well, resulting in the potential for chromosomal errors and unviable embryos.
