Periconceptional maternal Mediterranean diet is associated with favorable offspring behaviors and altered CpG methylation of imprinted genes

In this 2020 study, Nansel et al. inspect the associations between reward-related eating, self-regulation, and the home food environment with diet quality during pregnancy and following childbirth (postpartum). The women were monitored from their first trimester of pregnancy (≤12 weeks gestation) to their postpartum period (1 year after giving birth). Dietary data were all collected at […]

This 2020 review focuses on the importance of amino acids that are transported from the mother to the fetus during pregnancy. The placenta utilizes many branched-chain amino acids, some of which are converted to alpha ketoacids and contribute to placental ammonia production. Manta-Vogli et al. state that both non-essential and essential amino acids regulate key […]