{"id":61304,"date":"2025-09-08T20:11:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T10:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=61304"},"modified":"2025-09-08T20:11:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T10:11:10","slug":"preventing-a-lifetime-of-illness-before-birth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=61304","title":{"rendered":"Preventing a Lifetime of Illness Before Birth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Call to Action for Maternal Health Justice and Vitamin D Sufficiency<\/p>\n<p>89% of pregnant women have serum 25(OH)D levels below 40 ng\/mL; 31% are clinically deficient.<\/p>\n<p>Vitamin D sufficiency (= 40 ng\/mL) reduces risk of preterm birth by 46-59%, and lowers rates of preeclampsia, C-sections, gestational diabetes, and fetal growth complications.<\/p>\n<p>Standard prenatal care fails to screen or supplement adequately.<\/p>\n<p>Finish reading:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/orthomolecular.activehosted.com\/index.php?action=social&amp;chash=f1b6f2857fb6d44dd73c7041e0aa0f19.403&amp;s=86d82e9cdc36148c65275d8341fffe62\">https:\/\/orthomolecular.activehosted.com\/index.php?action=social&amp;chash=f1b6f2857fb6d44dd73c7041e0aa0f19.403&amp;s=86d82e9cdc36148c65275d8341fffe62<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Call to Action for Maternal Health Justice and Vitamin D Sufficiency 89% of pregnant women have serum 25(OH)D levels below 40 ng\/mL; 31% are clinically deficient. Vitamin D sufficiency (= 40 ng\/mL) reduces risk of preterm birth by 46-59%, and lowers rates of preeclampsia, C-sections, gestational diabetes, and fetal growth complications. Standard prenatal care &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=61304\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Preventing a Lifetime of Illness Before Birth&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61305,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61304\/revisions\/61305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}