Promoting a Healthy Pregnancy

Promoting a Healthy Pregnancy
You can take certain steps to improve your overall health that may also be helpful in ensuring a healthy and complication-free pregnancy in the future. These steps include improving your overall diet, increasing your exercise, reducing your stress levels and balancing your hormonal systems. The Insulite PCOS System incorporates all of these approaches to treat PCOS and its underlying Insulin Resistance, which can be helpful in reducing any health risks during pregnancy. Because there is no single solution that reverses Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome or Insulin Resistance, we feel you need to rely on a multi-faceted approach to improving or reversing these conditions. What is required is a complete system, including nutraceuticals (vitamins, herbs and minerals that are disease specific), a realistic exercise program, nutritional guidance and a support network that can help you change unhealthy lifestyle choices and address the issues presented by these disorders.Treatment of your PCOS may help increase your chances of conceiving and having a healthy pregnancy, because there is no single solution that reverses Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome or Insulin Resistance, we feel you need to rely on a multi-faceted approach to improving or reversing these conditions.

Pregnancy and Immune Suppression
Pregnancy brings a number of changes in hormone levels. These changes, especially the
increased production of progesterone, cause a down-regulation of cell-mediated immune
function.
This down-regulation is absolutely necessary for the survival of the fetus. Without it, the
pregnant woman’s immune system would reject the fetus in an effort to rid itself of foreign antigens, in this case coming from the father.

Pregnant women and Risk of Foodborne Illness
Unfortunately, this down-regulation also increases the susceptibility of the pregnant woman to infection from those pathogens that are kept in check through cell-mediated immune function.
The pathogens of most concern are those that spend their existence in the intracellular
environment of the host cells they invade.