Get Ready to Get Pregnant: Your Complete Prepregnancy Guide to Making a Smart and Healthy Baby

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Doctors and researchers are increasingly learning that by the time a woman gets pregnant, she may have already missed a critical window of opportunity to give her baby the best start in life. In this friendly and authoritative guide, Dr. Michael C. Lu, an expert in the field, offers a step-by-step prepregnancy plan that will help you have a safer pregnancy and a smarter and healthier child. Dr. Lu's plan explains how you can help prevent pregnancy complications such as gestational diabetes or preeclampsia, and minimize the likelihood of many childhood conditions, from asthma to autism. His expert advice includes: * Ten brain foods you should eat more * Ten toxic foods to avoid * Ten steps to strengthen your stress resilience * Ten steps to tune up your immune system * Ten steps to detoxify your environment * And much more!

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"This is the book that patients and doctors have been waiting for. Dr. Lu has pulled together a huge amount of critical information to help families prepare for pregnancy." -- Laura E. Riley, MD, Medical Director of Labor and Delivery, Massachusetts General Hospital and Author of You and Your Baby: Pregnancy "Dr. Lu's pregnancy preparedness program is essential for every couple thinking about getting pregnant." -- Alan Fleischman, MD, Senior Vice President and Medical Director of the March of Dimes Foundation "This information is invaluable and a 'must read' for anyone planning to get pregnant in the 21st century." -- Alan H. DeCherney MD, Editor-in-Chief, Fertility and Sterility "Dr. Lu provides a smart, evidence-based approach to help would-be parents understand how the decisions they make before getting pregnant can have a lasting impact on their children's lives." -- Linda Rosenstock, MD, MPH, Dean, UCLA School of Public Health

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Michael C. Lu, MD, MPH is an associate professor of obstetrics & gynecology and public health at UCLA . He has received many awards, including the 2003 National Maternal and Child Health Epidemiology Young Professional Achievement Award and the 2004 American Public Health Association Maternal and Child Health Section Young Professional Award for his research on pregnancy outcomes. He is a member of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Select Panel on Preconception Care, and gave the keynote address at the CDCs Second National Summit on Preconception Health and Healthcare. He has also been appointed to two National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medicine (IOM) Committees. Dr. Lu teaches obstetrics and gynecology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, and maternal and child health at the UCLA School of Public Health and has received numerous awards for his teaching, including Excellence in Teaching Awards from the Association of Professors of Gynecology and Obstetrics. Dr. Lu sees patients at the faculty group practice in obstetrics and gynecology at UCLA Medical Center, and has been selected as one of the Best Doctors in America since 2005.