Transcript of Episode 85: Healthy Pregnancy & Raising Healthy Kids
With Dr. Daniel Pompa and Meredith Dykstra
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dakMFj-KAyg”
Meredith:
Welcome to Cellular Healing TV, Episode 85. We have Dr. Pompa here, and we have an exciting topic for you guys today. First of all, how are you doing, Dr. Pompa?
Dr. Pompa:
Fantastic! Ready to go.
Meredith:
Awesome! Great! We are going to be doing a bit of a continuation. It’s going to be a Part 2 from Episode 83 where we had talked about fertility challenges, hormone dysregulation, and we kind of told you how to fix your fertility and how to optimize your hormones. Now we’re going to continue that and speak about having a healthy pregnancy, and raising healthy kids, and having a healthy birth. It’s another exciting topic, and we’re just going to be building upon what we talked about in Episode 83. Anything you want to speak about, Dr. Pompa before we jump in?
Dr. Pompa:
Obviously we’re progressing along. I was just thinking as you were speaking, “Gosh, I’ve been through all of this, haven’t I?” It’s like the pre-pregnancy, and then pregnancies, and then here we are. I have 19-year-olds, for goodness sake. Yeah. It’s a lot to talk about, progressing kids. I was just thinking, “Should we progress it all the way to raising teenagers?”
Meredith:
Oohh!
Dr. Pompa:
I think that one day, if I could organize this, I think a really fun show would be to interview my children, at least the ones I can gather. I have one who’s in school in Spain. The ones that are here, I think it would be a very funny show, what it’s like to be raised by Dr. Pompa. The older ones, they talk about how I was a Nazi. They were afraid to even think about eating a cookie at school, and they would rat each other out. Then my youngest one, it was just hands off. Do whatever you want. You’ll come around. You should hear them tell those stories. I’m going to figure that out one day. We’ll talk about raising teen – anyways, go ahead. I’ll -inaudible-.
Meredith:
Awesome. We’ll put that on the list for a future show. I think that would be very fun. Awesome. Anyway, so back to the topic at hand, and I think we can start with having a – what to do once you’re pregnant. You’ve detoxed, as we’ve talked about. You’ve optimized your hormones, and you’ve become pregnant. What do you do now? What do you suggest for some women out there, maybe that are listening, who are pregnant, and who just really – or thinking about becoming pregnant, what you suggest during pregnancy to really optimize your baby’s health in terms of food, supplementation? We can start there and go from there. What do you suggest once you’re pregnant? What do you do?
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, exactly. I know you’re going to back up even further and say, “Okay. Where do we have our baby?” We’ll get there next. I think that’s a great question. I’ll be very specific on the supplementation. The diet, I can be a little bit more general because I think that, again, depends on how healthy you are. We had interviewed one of my clients in a past show who had autoimmune challenges. We were stopped in the middle of detox, and she had had some really – problems with pregnancies in the past. This one was completely different. She was very strict on the diet, still. No grains. She stuck right to the cellular healing diet.
I think that some women can – again, healthy women can do healthy grains, but again, ancient grains are the key. We still don’t want to eat the gluten grains. We still want to eat ancient grains, which really don’t have as many of the denatured proteins that are going to leak across the gut and drive the immune system. By the way, it’s even more important in pregnancy. Most of my clients really just stay away from grains, period because they don’t want to risk a lot of the proteins, even lectins and phytates, anti-nutrients that are in grains that have the potential of driving the immune system.
A lot of funny things happen in pregnancy. Autoimmune can be developed during pregnancy. There’s stressors. There’s a physical stress, there’s emotional stress, and there’s a chemical stress. A lot of heavy metals leave from deep tissues because women lose bone and go through a process of breaking down to help the baby. In that process, they bring a lot of the heavy metals from deeper tissues, and we talked in the past about lead moving from the bone. It’s the number one way to get lead is from your mother during pregnancy. You mix those three stressors, you have to be very, very careful about your diet. That’s the diet advice. I would stick to the cellular healing diet. I would pay close attention to more fats. Go ahead.
Meredith:
Yeah. Just a question, too, before we leave the foods. I know a lot of women, while they’re pregnant, are told to avoid all unpasteurized and raw foods. What are your thoughts on that?
Dr. Pompa:
I think it’s silly. I think pasteurized milk is safer, frankly – I mean, unpasteurized milk. Raw milk is safer, especially when you get it from – because all the bacterias are there. That’s what keeps it safe. It’s funny. My daughter, I just said, was in Spain. She said, “Oh my gosh! It’s all raw milk over here, and they don’t refrigerate it.” She was like, “Why is that?” I said, “The culture is so high that you don’t need to refrigerate it.” “They don’t refrigerate eggs. They don’t refrigerate their milk. I don’t understand.”
People don’t understand that milk doesn’t have to be refrigerated when it’s actually real and there’s all these good probiotic and all these bacteria that we haven’t even discovered yet in it. It’s an amazing food. My gosh! My wife never avoided it ever, of course. She was eating raw cheese and raw, healthy dairy. I believe it’s one of the healthiest foods on the planet. Look, it’s not my opinion. I don’t need a scientific study. We look at every healthy culture on the planet from the history of man, they’ve consumed dairy.
I know the paleo people don’t like the dairy. They’re looking back in the caveman days, but listen. The fact is dairy has been a part of man’s diet, whether it was goat, whether it was cow, for eons. I believe it is a very healthy food. These cows eat grass – when they’re grass-fed. We’re not talking about conventional dairy here, folks. That’s bad news.
Here’s the dichotomy: I believe conventional dairy is probably the most unhealthy thing on the planet. Then we have the other side where I believe that real dairy from grass-fed cows, raw dairy, is the healthiest thing. It’s in the top three or five foods that are the healthiest foods to eat. Anwyays, I wouldn’t avoid it. Those dairies contain extreme, amazing, perfect fats, saturated fats, cholesterol, which I’m the believer that’s the fats that our brain needs.
There’s so many different proteins, perfect proteins, in that food, but pay attention to that. Grass-fed butter – these are fats that help the baby’s brain form. We want these fats from these good, grass-fed animals. Then of course, we have fats like avocados, oils, nuts, seeds, all these fats. You want a variety of fat. That’s they key. Again, the more fat, the better. Pay attention to eating more walnuts. Pay attention to eating pumpkin seeds, even fats you haven’t eaten before. Obviously, the grass-fed fats are the best.
There’s fats in grass-fed called conjugated linoleic acid, which your brain needs to work. Americans, because we eat grass-fed nothing, get very little of it. It’s also a fat-burning fat. It helps you become a fat burner. Coconut oil, olive oil – I can go down the – in The Cellular Healing Diet book, we list these fats. Obviously, good, clean fish from Alaska, Norwegian fish, northwest Pacific fish, not Atlantic, not farm-raised, these are good fats. Sardines, you can buy them in the store from the good, clean waters. These are all amazing fats. These are all fats that heal the brain and help a developing brain.
Meredith:
Yeah. What about carbohydrates when you’re pregnant? Do you suggest any kind of restricting if someone’s trying to lose weight, still? What are you thoughts on the ratio there?
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah. Look, when you start paying attention to your fats, you obviously need less carbohydrates. You need good quality protein, but of course, not too much. At least a half a gram of protein per pound of body weight, even up to one, somewhere in that range, you’re going to be at least not consuming too much and not enough. There’s a pretty good range.
Meredith:
-inaudible-.
Dr. Pompa:
Go ahead.
Meredith:
We cut out there for a minute, so I don’t know. If you could kind of backtrack a little bit, then -inaudible-.
Dr. Pompa:
I just said a half-gram of protein per pound of body weight up to a pound. During pregnancy, you could do more, but I wouldn’t go over one gram per pound. Pregnancy, no doubt, you’ll utilize more protein, so somewhere in that range. Carbohydrates, again, I think if they’re healthy carbohydrates, you’re fine. Eat as many vegetables as you want. Eat berries, as many as you want. I don’t think it’s time to count calories. Never do I believe it’s time to count calories, but especially when you’re pregnant.
Meredith:
Never!
Dr. Pompa:
Never, never. That fact is is you will take in more food, but you want it quality. Obviously you want quality food. I think that when you’re just purposely trying to increase your fat, keeping your protein within the range that I said, the carbohydrates, if you’re sticking to the vegetables, berries, and just either zero grain or some ancient grain, you’re going to be fine. Maybe possibly a potato every once in a while. Look, just follow the cellular healing diet. I think you’ll be fine.
Meredith:
Mm-hmm. Yeah. Wonderful. Organic as much as possible, as well.
Dr. Pompa:
You know what? I was just going to say that. You read my mind. With the exposure of glyphosate – we’ve done past shows on it. We have an article called It’s Not Just Gluten. This dog of mine rubs on this thing that I have my thing on, and she rocks this. When you see this thing shaking – would you stop?
Meredith:
-inaudible- making an appearance.
Dr. Pompa:
I’m going to have to kick her out during these shows, but then she’ll paw at the door. Gosh, she’s annoying! Cute, but annoying. Anyways, so glyphosate is a chemical that creates leaky gut. Glyphosate is a chemical. Again, I’ve talked about Stephanie Seneff. She’s the senior scientist at MIT. Her study’s showing that not only does it cause leaky gut, but it destroys bacteria in the gut that we need to make neurotransmitters for the brain. Imagine that for a developing brain.
My gosh! If there were a time to stay away from all conventional grain, which is all sprayed with glyphosate. They spray it to harvest it, not just as a pesticide. They spray it to harvest it. It shrivels up the grain and makes it easier to harvest. It’s called dessication. That means the grain is just loaded with this chemical. Of course it’s being sprayed on fruits and vegetables. Eat organic while you’re pregnant. I think you should eat organic all the time, but if you haven’t been, this is the time. You don’t want this chemical. This is really bad stuff for the developing baby’s gut, brain, and of course, you. It may the most important thing that we’ve just said on this show, period.
Meredith:
Mm-hmm. Yeah.
Dr. Pompa:
Now the dogs wants out, so now I have to let her out. Go ahead. I’m listening. Go ahead.
Meredith:
All right. You’re listening. I know you are a big proponent of organic coffee, Dr. Pompa. What about caffeine during pregnancy and alcohol, as well? I know some women do drink moderately. What are your thoughts on caffeine and alcohol?
Dr. Pompa:
There’s a little different – look. If you don’t drink coffee, don’t start. If you’re drinking four cups a day, go to one. Seriously, too much stimulation is not going to be good. Like I said, I believe one cup of organic, and that’s key, too because again, we’re talking about the pesticides that we know turn on bad genes. Stay away. If you’re drinking coffee, move to organic, please. Again, one cup in the morning, it’s actually healthy. Studies show that it is. Hey, look what I’m drinking this morning. Oh, that’s a Park City mug. Anyways, this is coffee.
Meredith:
-inaudible-.
Dr. Pompa:
You can’t see in here. I’ll spill it. Maybe if I take a sip, you’ll see it on my lips. It’s yellow. I put a teaspoon of turmeric in my –
Meredith:
Very nice!
Dr. Pompa:
You know what’s funny? When I was at the office there with you last time, I looked down in your food bag, and I was very impressed. I saw turmeric, and I was like, “Oh, she does that, too!” I take it, just put it in things, right?
Meredith:
Mm-hmm.
Dr. Pompa:
One of my favorite things is putting it in the coffee. It doesn’t taste. It doesn’t even change the taste. I get my healthy fats in my healthy coffee with turmeric. My gosh, it’s like this super food, really.
Meredith:
-inaudible- for your brain, perfect. Have you ever put egg into your coffee?
Dr. Pompa:
I’m sorry?
Meredith:
Have you ever put egg in your coffee?
Dr. Pompa:
I’ve never done that, Meredith. You always beat me. You’re always better than me with this food stuff. She really is, folks. She’s amazing. She’s more creative when it comes to foods and things like that. That’s why she’s booted Warren and David off the show. She took over because she’s – she dials this food stuff in. She really does. You live it, Meredith. You do. I live it, and I have respect for other people who live it.
Meredith:
We got to practice what we preach, right?
Dr. Pompa:
No doubt. It’s the only way to have the authority to affect other people’s lives if you live it. Anyways, where was I going with the turmeric?
Meredith:
We talked about alcohol, caffeine during pregnancy.
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah. We talked about the caffeine. The alcohol – there’s a little difference – when you go to Europe, pregnant women always are drinking some wine and a little bit of alcohol, and it’s no big deal. Here in the United States, it’s frowned upon more. Again, don’t start drinking wine if you’re pregnant, but – again, too much at the wrong time of the pregnancy, I would say is a really bad thing. Could it cause a birth defect? Yes. A little bit throughout your pregnancy, it’s been proven. I don’t have to say, “Go to Europe and watch what they do.” It’s fine. I think that a little bit is going to be okay.
Meredith:
Mm-hmm. Awesome. All right. We’ve got the diet covered. Next, what about supplementation during pregnancy? I know a lot of women take folic acid. That’s a really big one. What are your thoughts and suggestions in that area?
Dr. Pompa:
Just write these down, folks. This is what I tell people: First of all, I talked about the importance of fats. Vista, V-I-S-T-A, Vista 1 and 2, the most important one. That product was developed to heal the cell membrane, but that four to one ratio, the omege-6 to –3 in there is the only ratio that is actually shown to affect the brain for the good and change brain function. Man, that’s an important one. I would double the regular dose on that, especially in the beginning of your pregnancy.
MORS – you talked about folate. Fifteen percent, twenty percent of the population has trouble taking folate, a regular form, and converting it into the active form that goes into the cell called methyltetrahydrofolate. MORS has the active form, so if you are in the 15% to 20% that is more at risk for having a birth defect because of the lack of folic acid, then you need the MORS. The MORS has, really, all of those methyl donors that are so important. That’s key.
Listen, I am not a fan of prenatal vitamins. There are phony vitamins. There’s too much. To me, it’s more of a toxic issue, all the wrong forms, not active forms. It’s junk. Again, this combination, far better. This is real food. Vista is real food. MORS is active forms. This is where they key is. Please, don’t just be taking fish oil, folks. We’ve talked about that, how it can create omega-3 dominance, especially in a developing baby. The balanced oil is key. Eat fish, take the Vista, keep your balance right.
Let’s see, we had that. The DV3 is a good one because it has vitamin K, which arguably might be more important than vitamin D, and vitamin D, and vitamin A so it has the balance of fat-solubles. That’s a really good one, as well. We had the Vista; we had the MORS; we had the DV3, and they make that in a liquid version, as well.
Oh, the iodine. The iodine is really important. It’s called TMI, like Too Much Information. Even just one of those a day is huge. We show that women who are deficient in iodine during pregnancy, it lowers the IQ of the baby by about 12 points. We know that it has an amazing affect on the brain, developing immune system, the thyroid, obviously, but very, very important. We’ve done a show on some of these vitamin deficiencies, the major deficiencies, and that’s one of them. B12 was in there, but that’s in MORS, so that’s covered there.
I would add, maybe, a magnesium. It just has such a good effect on the hormones. So much magnesium is needed today, so yeah, I would maybe throw in a magnesium malate, magnesium citrate. You might want to show them, we have a buffered magnesium, very absorbable magnesium. Typically, the magnesiums you buy in the store aren’t going to be as absorbable and then can loosen the stool because it’s not being absorbed.
Meredith:
We have a magnesium oil spray that we offer that I take, too. I spray it on my arms and legs at night before I go to sleep, and it really, really has helped to regulate my sleep cycle, so -inaudible-.
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah. -inaudible- because some people don’t absorb magnesium very well in the gut, and therefore, those people benefit more from spraying it. Yeah. Pull, if you have a minute – if I’m talking, just zip off and grab some of the product just to show them. I think it helps, or tell Travis to do it, somebody.
Meredith:
Somebody, help me. All right. Great. I can grab some of those ones when we’re talking. All right. Great. Awesome. We’ve got the supplements covered, got the diet covered. Wondering now about the exercise component, too. You talk a lot about burst training, but is that safe to do while pregnant? If not, what would you suggest?
Dr. Pompa:
Once again, I wouldn’t suggest just starting burst training all of a sudden. “Okay, I’m pregnant. I’m going to start burst training.” You’d have to work up to that. I have to tell a little funny story. Those who watched our show – Phil Kaplan has been on the show several times, and he is the exercise guru. He really is. He had the largest radio show for fitness. He knew Joe Weider. Not many of you out there probably don’t know who Joe Weider is, but that’s like every magazine about exercise, that’s from the Weiders. Every body building product, Joe Weider. Anyways, he was friends with the Weiders. He was the biggest guy in exercise. I have a lot of respect for Phil.
Anyways, also if you watched the mold episode – 73 was the mold episode, that’s Phil. He was one of my clients, and that’s how we met years ago. Anyways, so Phil wrote all – not all – most of these articles in these nutrition magazines, and exercise, and lifting magazines from Muscle & Fitness to Flex, he wrote them all. He can write. His mother would say, “Why is your wife exercising? Da da da da da.” It was this whole thing. “Your wife’s exercising during her pregnancy.” Had a problem with it.
One day, she’s sitting on the couch, and she says, “Phil!” – his Jewish mother. “Phil! You should read this article. It’s stating here, the type of exercises that your wife should be doing while pregnant, and the fact that it’s actually good to exercise while you’re pregnant. Da da da da da.” She starts saying things and reading things. He’s like, “Where is she getting that information?” It sounded like something he wrote. He walks over, looks over her shoulder. He’s like, “Mother, look at the author on that article.” Looks at it. It’s her son, Phil Kaplan. Puts the article down.
The bottom line is, according to guru, Phil Kaplan and his mother now, it is safe to exercise while pregnant and actually very healthy to exercise while you’re pregnant.
Meredith:
Whoo! All right. Glad you cleared that up.
Dr. Pompa:
All right. Next question.
Meredith:
What about the burst training, though?
Dr. Pompa:
Burst training’s very healthy. Listen, my wife, actually, her first pregnancy, she skied to six months. My wife exercised through all of her pregnancies, every one of them all the way to where she was uncomfortable doing it near the end. Then she’d stopped. I don’t know. She could tell you exactly when that was better than I could, but she really exercised. She did burst type of training.
Now, I wouldn’t recommend running on a treadmill. You could get thrown off the back. That wouldn’t be good. A stepper or something that is more safe that you’re not going to fall, yes. You’re like, “Well, she skied.” It was small stuff when she skies. Whatever you’re doing now, you can continue.
Meredith:
Mm-hmm. Yeah. Awesome. Great. I know I’ve gotten this question a lot just from customers. What about detoxing while pregnant? What are your thoughts on that?
Dr. Pompa:
I’m coming back. Don’t worry.
Meredith:
All right. Don’t leave us.
Dr. Pompa:
The dog wanted out. Now she wants in. You’re trouble.
Meredith:
Can’t make up her mind.
Dr. Pompa:
Now she has a bone, so you’re going to hear crunching in the background. These dogs follow me around. They’re like I’m their leader, wherever I go. It’s always – I’m bumping into them.
Never, ever, ever detox when pregnant. The simple answer, honestly. If you are, stop. We don’t want to move – we don’t want to challenge detox pathways. We don’t want to challenge the cell. We don’t want to have any risk of redistribution which would go into the baby, perhaps, in utero, so we just don’t want to do that.
Meredith:
That’s true while breastfeeding, as well, right?
Dr. Pompa:
Mm-hmm. Yeah. You don’t want to detox while breastfeeding. I’m going to finish my curcumin, so now I don’t have to worry about yellow lips.
Meredith:
Awesome. Getting those good anti-inflammatory effects right there. Beautiful. I’ve gotten this question, as well, just wondering what about fasting while pregnant?
Dr. Pompa:
No, no, no. Exactly. You need nutrients. You need all the stuff going in.
Meredith:
Not a good idea. Okay.
Dr. Pompa:
Extra fat, we need extra protein, we need extra calories, frankly. We don’t want to cut it.
Meredith:
Mm-hmm. Awesome. All right. Great. We covered a lot on while you’re pregnant, with the foods, the supplementation, the exercise. Now, as we’ve mentioned before, what about when you’re actually having the baby? I don’t have any children myself, Dr. Pompa, but I know that you have experienced birthing your children at home. I thought if you could just share a little bit about that experience versus having a baby in a hospital. If you can share what your thoughts are on that and your personal experience, that would be neat.
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah. You know, we should really do a show in the future about having home births. I could have my wife do that. I feel like I’m not the one that could deliver this information, but I’ll tell you the story. I did have all my children at home, or my wife did. For me, it was never, ever a big deal. I was never concerned or ever worried. Why wouldn’t I have my baby at home?
Matter of fact, honestly, I was trying to convince my wife to let me deliver it and not the midwife. She didn’t go for that, as you might imagine. Even by the third one, I was convinced, “Come on already!” but she had made her bond with her midwife, so she wasn’t going to allow me to do it. It’s funny because by the third one, me and the midwife – it was around when Frank Sinatra died, and they had all these Frank Sinatra tributes and shows on. We were locked into the TV in the other room. She was in there, and it’s like – and really, both of us at that point were like, “Come on, now. You can do this yourself, I’m sure.” We were literally not giving her the attention.
Then we also had my young ones, my two young boys, who were in and out of the room, literally like, “Is it here, yet? Is it here, yet?” My wife was completely out of her zone compared to the pregnancies before. That’s my little boy, Simon. No wonder he’s so unique. Gosh, he started off unique. We’re in there watching Frank Sinatra. My two little ones are in there just harassing her, looking with big eyes. Imagine this. It was a lot of fun. Then my neighbor, who was a nurse – Merily’s out there later that afternoon. She’s looking at her, and she’s like, “When did you have the baby?” She’s a nurse. You could imagine. She’s like, “Oh, I just had her this morning. I just had him this morning.” She’s already out walking with the baby. My wife was a really trooper.
My wife, though, didn’t – she had to go through a process where I was going, “Read this. Read that.” Her father was telling her this and that. You know, the family members, like, “What if this happens? What if that happens?”
Meredith:
It’s our cultural conditioning, too, to have it in a hospital. People are very afraid of having babies at home.
Dr. Pompa:
Absolutely. You know what? Her father, who was the nervous one, he finds this article in the newspaper. This is like the Phil Kaplan mother story. He’s reading this article how home births are safer statistically, far safer, than hospital births, and how all these things from C-sections, and all these things, they induce too early. It was a really well written article at the right time. Of course, after that he went around telling everybody, “Home births are safer. My wife had her babies at home.” Then he went from the nervous dad to the proud dad. Again, it took that outside source, just like Phil’s mother, to actually convince them, even though I was going, “No. Look at the statistics yourself. Home births are safer.”
Look, the bottom line is this: They have made it a medical problem instead of the natural thing that it is. Most of the world still births their babies at home, obviously. When we look at statistics – when we look at infant mortality, we’re either second to last out of the whole world or last. I think we may have been the last, meaning more babies are dying here than anywhere. Come on, folks. We induce babies.
Doctors love C-sections because they can do it on their scheduled time. They’re not going to get woken up at 3 a.m. C-sections, massive problems. When the baby doesn’t go through the birth canal, it doesn’t inherit the mother’s microbiome. I could talk a whole show just on that. C-section babies don’t get this – they inherit their bacteria that sets them up, their immune system, for life. When they don’t go through the birth canal, they don’t get that. Now they have to make it up through just nursing and its environment, which can be done to some degree. We know there’s higher autoimmune risk, and all these things, and multiple different conditions with C-section babies. Yet, we’re the highest in the nation – or the highest in the world.
It’s convenience, folks. Oh, and by the way, insurance pays more money. It’s a win-win. More money to the hospital, more convenient. Hey, lack of anything happening in the birthing process, we just cut it and take them out. Then we induce. Look, women can be in labor for many, many hours if not a couple days, and it stops. Eventually, the innate intelligence does its things. That’s not going to happen in a hospital. They’re going to induce you. What’s the problem with that? When you get induced, it really changes the rhythm of everything, the contractions. Now you can’t contract. You know what, then, they have to do? They have to pull the baby from the neck either with forceps, suction, or just their hands. Never, ever do you pull a baby from the womb. Its cervical spine gets subluxated. These babies end up with straight necks, subluxated atlases, which cause neurological problems. Problems, again, most of the time, for the rest of their life.
It is the stressor outside of the womb that creates a multiple – that perfect storm that we talk about, of different stressors. Then we start vaccinating these children and adding chemical stressors. We wonder why we have more disease in our children than any country in the world. We start them wrong in utero, the way we birth these babies, and then we start sticking them with more vaccinations, folks, than we have ever been exposed to, ever, ever. None of us have been vaccinated like kids today. This is a major problem. Don’t believe me; do your own homework. I’m not telling anybody not to vaccinate. I’m telling everybody to do your own homework because this is a big issue.
Look, that’s a whole show, vaccinations. You can give them some of the past episodes that we’ve done on vaccinations. I’ll just say this: There’s two problems about vaccinations. Number one is they’re extremely toxic. Look at the ingredient list in the vaccination that you’re about to give your child or yourself if you’re taking a flu shot. You will be stunned, from aborted fetus tissue, to retroviruses, to monkey pus. I can go on and on – to formaldehyde. Mercury is going back in the vaccinations, but when it’s not, it’s just higher levels of aluminum. They need these adjuncts to stimulate, shock the immune system. That’s how they work. They’re inherently toxic. People talk about, “Let’s just make more less-toxic vaccines.” That doesn’t work. They’re meant to be toxic, bottom line.
The other problem is this: They stimulate the wrong immune system. Back when you get a childhood disease, which I believe, is extremely healthy – I believe it’s meant to happen. I believe that healthy children don’t die from these diseases. Malnourished children could, absolutely, however, they’re meant to get these diseases. They get a lifetime immunity which sets them up with a stronger immune system later in life. That’s why the old days, they would send their kids down to get measles, mumps, rubella, whooping cough. Why? Their kids would develop a stronger immune system. It’s a T1 immune reaction where it’s lifetime.
Now, when you get the vaccine, it doesn’t stimulate that same Th1 reaction to the immune system, giving you a lifetime immunity. It’s stimulates a Th2, which is an emergency reaction, and antibody reaction. That’s why kids need boosters because it’s not giving them that Th1 lifetime immunity. It’s emergency reaction. Antibodies up, they start coming down. Antibodies up, start coming down. What we’re doing is we’re really bypassing what God has set in place. We’re forcing the immune system, forcing the immune system.
Research galore of how that’s driving allergies, autoimmune, and other problems. That’s the issue that I have. Do your own homework, please. There’s a lot of cover-up. There’s a lot of things – the studies that the pediatrician quote, they’re from drug companies. Independent studies show a completely different side of this argument. Do your research and watch the past episode. What was the episode that I interviewed Mary Tocco?
Meredith:
That’s Episode 61 of Cellular Healing TV. You can find that on Dr. Pompa’s YouTube channel or on Podcast.DrPompa.com episode 61 on the vaccines for more information on that.
Dr. Pompa:
Great. A big topic. Hey, Meredith, write this down. You’re really good at remembering. This time of year, we need to do a show on flu shots. We need to wake people up to the reality of flu shots and understanding that flu shots – gosh, I just quoted one of the world’s leading, if not lead, immunologist, and basically, he said that if you get a flu shot consistently for five years, you have a 10 times likelihood of developing Alzheimer’s.
Meredith:
Wow!
Dr. Pompa:
He’s the most quoted immunologist in the world. Eight hundred and fifty peer-reviewed papers, this man has. He’s looking at research, going, “Whoa! What? This is driving Alzheimer’s.” We know that there’s mercury and aluminum in these shots. When asked why, he said, “It’s the bioaccumulation of heavy metals in the brain.” Bingo! Let’s do a show on that. We need to bring that out. I’ll show you his exact quotes and others. Again, not telling anyone not to do whatever. I’m telling you be educated.
Meredith:
Wow. That’s shocking. If that doesn’t scare people, I don’t know what will. Wow. That is huge. We’ll definitely mark that on a future show, for sure. Vaccines, huge topic. Going along with that, too, just after you’ve had the baby, I just kind of wanted you to talk a little bit about the importance of breastfeeding, as well. What’s in breast milk that makes it so important, colostrum, and that product that we take, and just that whole topic. If you can share on that, as well, that’d be great.
Dr. Pompa:
The first few feedings the first day or two, it’s amazing. Gosh, the innate intelligence is amazing. What is in that is this massive amount of immunoglobulins needed for brain growth, and protects the immune systems, stimulates the baby’s immune system. We have a few products that have colostrum in it.
Meredith:
Grass-fed, from cows. Mm-hmm.
Dr. Pompa:
Grass-fed cows, yeah. We know we just thrive our immune system and how it just bolsters the immune system, knocks down the bad immunity. Colostrum is amazing. Breast milk, by the way, 55% saturated fat. Saturated fat’s bad? You think saturated fat’s bad? Then why did God put 55% of the calorie’s saturated fat of breast milk? No, no, no. These fats are brain-healing, immune-developing, cell membrane stabilizing. That’s what these fats are. Yes, mostly fat in that breast milk. Perfect immune system.
Here’s the cool thing. Let’s say the baby’s innate intelligence is needing more protein. When the baby is suckling, it communicates with the mother’s immune system through the areola of the nipple. It communicates what it needs. The breast milk is constantly changing, adapting to what the baby’s needs are. Is that crazy? That’s proven, by the way.
Meredith:
Wow. Amazing.
Dr. Pompa:
The baby needs more good fats? It tells the mother, and the mother produces the milk on what the baby needs. Okay, folks. Can you duplicate that in formula? Forget about it. Formulas today, that’s, again, a whole other show. Did you ever see what’s in formula? From GMOs –
Meredith:
-inaudible- corn syrup –
Dr. Pompa:
Corn syrup, sugar – oh, but they put fish oil in it. They put all the good fish oil. They put folic acid. Come on! Can you believe that man thinks they can duplicate that? Are you kidding me? I would rather drink the breast milk of a drug addict woman than the formula that sits on the shelf in a store. Come on.
Look, you can’t duplicate breast milk. It’s constantly adapting with the needs of the baby. Perfect formulation of protein, carbohydrates, fats, vitamins, minerals, everything. Moms beware because it will make that breast milk perfectly nutritious on your behalf, meaning it will take from you. Those things that we said to take for your pregnancy, keep taking them, and keep consuming those calories because you’re going to need more. You’re producing a lot of healthy milk there, so a lot of fat, a lot of quality protein, as we described, and really keep it going. Whey protein is a good way to make sure that you’re getting enough quality, absorbable protein. That seems to really help bolster the milk supply, as well. Coconut oil, MCT oils, all those good fats do that same thing.
Meredith:
Mm-hmm. That’s good to know. It’s so amazing. I didn’t know that the breast milk adapted to the baby’s needs, too. That is just -inaudible-.
Dr. Pompa:
Here’s the thing, too, and not just for the food, but also for the immunoglobulins. What’s coming out of mom is all her antibodies that protect the child. See, babies nursing, they’re the most protected thing on the planet because it has the mother’s immune system. Again, a baby un-nursing, that’s a more vulnerable child. There’s no doubt. It’s all the mother’s antibodies that surge into that child.
If there’s a virus – let’s say there’s a flu going around. This is why nursing babies don’t get flu because it senses it. The mother produces all these amazing antibodies from that same communication and knocks it down. Amazing. Amazing how the immune system, how strong the nursing baby’s immune system is. Absolutely remarkable! If your baby’s not nursing, no doubt, there’s greater risk, for sure.
Not to mention, we talked a little bit about microbiome, where the baby not only gets the mom’s good bacteria when he or she goes through the birth canal, but also nursing plays into that microbiome. That’s why babies that are born through the birth canal and babies that are nursing far, far, far less chances of having autoimmune and allergies later in life. Oh! Let the kid play in the dirt and don’t give them antibiotics for earaches, and strep throats, and these things, and let the immune system do its job. You’re going to have a healthy child. Of course, consider the vaccination issue. It’s not hard.
You just think about it. Birth it through the canal, nurse the baby, change the diet, take what we told you to take. Just make sure those main things are being met, those main nutrients are being met, and research vaccinations. Don’t buy into the antibiotic for every strep throat, all that stuff. Baloney! My kids never took an antibiotic in their entire lives. How is it possible? How?
Meredith:
How are they alive? What?
Dr. Pompa:
How about this? Here we go. How about our adopted children? We adopted two of them. We have five; two of them, we adopted before age seven. That’s when we got them with tragic death of their parents. They were on antibiotics all the time. Now, they come in our family, and they haven’t taken antibiotic since. They’re 19 years old. Think about this for a minute. What changed? Lucky or just a different philosophy? From needing antibiotics to all of a sudden, they don’t need antibiotics. The point is is they never needed the antibiotics. Again, I’m not telling anyone not to take an antibiotic. Again, do your homework.
An antibiotic can save your life in an emergency. I’m not against them. However, I am against them for all the earaches, and the strep throats, etcetera. Do we need another study to show that kids that take antibiotics for earaches have more earaches? Do we need another study to show that taking it for all the sore throats actually increase the risk of strep throats? Come on. There’s a great book out there. It’s an oldie but a goodie. It was written by a pediatrician, Robert Mendelsohn. It’s How to Raise Kids Despite Your Medical Doctor. It’s How to Raise Healthy Kids Despite Your Medical Doctor.” Dr. Robert Mendelsohn, a hero, and he talked about why – I’ll quote him.
He talked about why giving antibiotics for every sore throat, even strep throat, is a mistake, statistically. He talked about what it really – everyone worries about rheumatic fever, and really, the hoax that was played on us years ago about that. The kids that take – for strep throat, all the antibiotics actually have an increase in rheumatic fever. They’re the ones that end up with it because they don’t build the immunity against the flu viruses.
He talks about the vaccination issues. He talks about having babies at home, all in one, simple, paperback, 100-page book. That’s probably the best advice I could give you on how to raise healthy kids despite your medical doctor. I believe one the most dangerous office doctor visits on the planet is a baby wellness visit. It is basically where they start weighing your baby, freaking your mom out. The tables for baby weight is a garbage anyway because half of them are on formulas and soy. Your baby, if it’s natural, is going to be lighter. Don’t listen to that stuff. It is garbage. They look for reasons to give your kids medications. Bad idea, folks, bad idea.
Get Mendelsohn’s book. Have it on hand. Don’t freak out. Kids are meant to get sick, moms. Please listen. They’re meant to get sick. It’s normal; it’s okay; they’re building immunity. Every time you chase the symptoms down with Advil, aspirin, antibiotics, you’re creating problems later. Kids are meant to run fevers. You bring down the fever. You know what Mendelsohn says in his book? Parents, you should never bring down a fever. If the fever is going out of control, and the child has delirium, take them to the hospital, time and a place. Delirium is that thing that we look for. Fevers are good. When you bring a fever down, now you’re letting the virus or the bacteria basically multiply because the fever is there to keep it from multiplying.
The fever is there for a reason. It’s not the enemy; quite the opposite. It is the blessing of the innate intelligence to knock down the bacteria. It’s its first line of defense. Please, think about that for a second. Read his book. Again, he’s the pediatrician. Let him be the expert. I can tell you how I raised my kids. I can tell you that they’re the age that they are now and have never taken an antibiotic, never taken an aspirin, never brought down a fever. Did my kids get sick? Absolutely did. There you have it.
Meredith:
Wow. Another question that came to mind, too, how long do you suggest breastfeeding?
Dr. Pompa:
Minimum six months. I would go for at least a year. We did at least probably a year and a half to two years with our kids.
Meredith:
Mm-hmm. Yeah. Okay. It was just something I thought of. Wow.
Dr. Pompa:
Here’s a good one. I just thought of my own question. When do you start giving kids solid food? -inaudible- starts breaking teeth is when it’s giving you the sign that their digestive tract is mature enough to start handling some food. Again, the innate intelligence knows. That’s going to be different from this child to that child. Every child is different. We see teeth start to break, that’s a good time to start introducing foods, soft foods. When they start reaching and grabbing for the food is another good indication. That typically happens around the same time.
Meredith:
Makes perfect sense. Wow. God had it all figured out, didn’t He? Awesome. Thank you. I think that was amazing information. We covered so much. I hope you guys got a lot of value out of this show. Please send this to any young moms out there or any young women that you know are looking to get pregnant because this is just really, really important information for so many of us to share to learn. Thank you so much, Dr. Pompa. Next week, we have a special guest, Mr. Dan Howard. He’s going to be speaking with Dr. Pompa about mold remediation and some tricks and tactics he uses. He’s a bit of a mold expert, so I think that’s going to be a really exciting show.
Dr. Pompa:
Meredith, why don’t you put out an email to our list? There are so many people been requesting this show and have wanted to see it. Let’s send out an email that we have this guest on about it because we have a lot of people who want to hear about mold, mold remediation. This guy is really, really smart. He really does a great job. Let’s get that word out. Folks, get the word out, and we’ll see you next week.
Meredith:
Sounds great. Thanks, everyone!
