March 29, 2021 • 43 mins
On this episode of “Vitamin D with Dawn Dai”, Dawn talks the epidemic surrounding Black maternal health and the importance of vitamin D with double board-certified physician in OB-GYN and Maternal Fetal Medicine and Director of Perinatal Services at NYC Health + Hospitals/Lincoln in the Bronx, New York, Dr. Kecia Gaither, MD. Dive in as they discuss the disparities of black maternal health, how vitamin D levels affect our health, the importance of knowing who you are and so much more.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Good morning, good afternoon, good evening. You are told into
the Vitamin D Podcast and I am your host, Dawn Day,
here to get you excited about your life. Now this
is your first time welcome. Vitamin D is all about
you living life on purpose and for purpose. And guess
what it's upon off my name? You know how you
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get Vitamin D from the sun. Right, Well, my name
is Dawn and I'm here to shed light into your life.
And today I'm shedding a light on pandemic pregnancy, women's health,
and of course we're gonna talk about the vitamin Z
because everybody needs that deep And so I invited a
special guest of mine, the incomparable double sports certified physician
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and O b G y N and Maternal Medicine and
Director of Paranatal Services at NYC Health and Hospitals Lincoln
in the Bronx, New York, the one and only Dr
Kesha Gaither. So, without further ado, ladies and gentlemen, it's
time for your dough a Vitamin D D. Right with
me and get excited. Hello there, Dr Keisha Gather, Hello,
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Mr Day, how are you hello, audience, It's so good
to see you. Good to see you too. I'm jealous
of your weather day I'm there in California. You know,
we have to be a full representation of vitamin D,
so bringing light all the way around. I know you
got that sunshine, and I hope we're shouting stuff to
(01:34):
your way. Yeah, we we've got to ring. We will
get some sun tomorrow. You can get some of that vitamin.
So how are you doing though, How you been holding
up in this pandemic. Well, it's much better now. Um,
I can definitely say that when we were in the
height of it a bit much, it really was very scary.
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It's a it's a change, is something different, you know.
It's a mote of where we're all going in, which
is a good thing right as far as within ourselves
and doing work and really evaluating. But while we're also
in a emotionalness spiritual sense going in, we're physically going in.
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And that's why I'm so excited to have you on
because I talk about vitamin D from an inspirational and
motivational level. Okay, but I got you on to not
even sprinkle it there. But we're also going to be
talking about how important it is with health and black
maternal health because let's face it, a lot of people
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are inside and while they may not have the vitamin
D from outside, they're sure getting some D from somewhere.
And a lot of people are having babies. And when
we look at the disparity in general, when it comes
down to black women and pregnancy and death rates and health,
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one can only be alarmed and want to know how
does vitamin D connect? And so that's where you come there. Okay,
all right, so let's let's talk a little bit about
vitamin T. The vitamin D is made in the skin
in conjunction with sunlight. For people of color, the melanin
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can um inhibit the normal production of vitamin DING. Now,
given the fact that we're in COVID and we're in
the house and there are a lot of people of
color for in the house, um it is it is
is certain that there are many people who are vitamin
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D nutrition. So given that b let's talk about vitamin
ding and what it does for a normal human as
well as a pregnant human. So, vitamin D it's involved
in a lot of things. It's involved in your party
of vascular health. It's involved involved health, it's involved with
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your mentation in pregnant women, it's certinally importance to have
high levels of it such that there's normal people bone
development and vitamin D deficiency has been correlated with an
increased risk of the term labor. Now, given the fact
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that we are INMPLVID, COVID has a tendency to attack
more readily those people that are vitamin D divisions. So
for any woman out there was pregnant of color, it
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is very important for you to be having a supplement. UM.
One thing that I would admize it's for you to
ask your doctor to check your vitamin D level. Any
pregnant woman that grace us my office, she's automatically getting
a D level chat question for you. So I really
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like this. UM, let's go to a two shot at
Dr Gaither and not Jeremiah. UM. I really like this
because one of the things that I think about as
I'm in this age, in this realm of children, is
something that is on top of mind. And let's face it,
being in l a being a woman that is about
her career and in a vision, you know, that's something
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that you want to ensure that everything's okay. And So
I've had friends and different people that have been close
to me that have been affected by five boys, and
I can't help but think about that when we're talking
about being in the child bearing years years. But then
also understand the vitamin D because I understand become one
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and one, and while we're talking about the disparity of
how what is it three to four women more times
likely to die than white women while being pregnant, one
can only wonder what's going on here and how important
that vitamin D has taking place when it comes to
even the womb that is going to carry this baby. Absolutely,
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So that's why I am recommend that every woman in
childbearing age or pregnant anything with the vitamin D level.
It's good to have a level of nnograms. Your physician
can check your love, we can get your own kids.
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There's a great website called our dot org where it
has a lot of one serious vitamins UM. You can
get your own kit. You can UM involved in research
concerning vitamin D. So it's a great UM option for
you to have if you want to check your own
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by the D level. Okay, so let's just talk a
little bit about the stats and what's going on. So
I understand an article that you published right, although the
US is spending a hundred and eleven billion dollars per year. Okay,
and this is on maternal, prenatal and newborn care with
and roughly what a thirty year time span death Black
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maternal deaths have increased a hundred and fifty percent. Is
it just because of vitamin D? What's going on? Well,
you know, I think it's multime factorial. Um, let's list
some of the things. Lack of prenatal care or if
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you go to natal care you're going late call morbid
conditions that have you know, basically expanded and cause problems. Um.
You have to contend with lack of insurance. Um, you
have to contend with a system that may not be
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that nice. Two people of color contending with implusive bias
and racism, women that being listened to, women not being
offered the same treatment, procedures, et cetera that are offered
to other people who are not melonated. Um. So it's
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a multi faceted issue. And so while we see these issues,
how do we attack them or how do we approach them? Well,
I think it kind of starts. It's fine, And there
have been leg flavors, particularly like Senator Adams who was
proposing legislation to address black maternal mentality. Okay, and there
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it's a well bulleted bull bill sorry that that deals
with specific issues the ability to get pre named here,
the ability to have genetic tests and attention to those
women who are imprisoned, the ability to have UH expanded medicaid,
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you know in that fourth trimester, and the fourth trimester
refers to the both partum period. So there are a
whole list of things that specifically address some of the
issues that are see in in UH Elevated Black It's
just basketballs me when you really think about it, how
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there's so many pressures that's coming left and right, and
just in the times that we're in and we're talking
to all the racial disparities, and people can turn around
and say, oh, that was yester years not understanding the
ripple down effect that it affects a three sixty view.
And it's so interesting how people can understand how a
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child can perhaps be traumatized in life and what let's
just say a thirty year old in thirty and say
in the first five years be traumatized and can understand
why this person is going in the direction of their life.
And when you talk about certain peoples of color, those
of Melan and Hugh, we're talking hundreds and hundreds of years.
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So now that it is just a point of where
we're working in society. We're talking about the genetic genetic
makeup of our existence. And I'm so glad we're having
this conversation because I was talking to a good girlfriend
of mine, and I don't think people are at hearing,
uh to how serious it is when you are expecting
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a child or trying to have a child, about the
traumas that it does happen in your life. I remember
when I was you know, my mom passed away with
inel but one of the things that she told me
she said don. She never said don, she said don.
You know, having a baby is like going through death
because your body is going through so much of a metamorphosis.
And so now we have a situation as you're explaining
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things that have been systemic, things that have been passed
down in a mental place. Um, that's taken on the
physical and how it's another slash so to speak to
the development of people of color their existence. H Well,
you know what's interesting, Um, there's a book around called
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Medical approchetype by Harriett Washington, and it talks about the
healthcare of people of color in the United States and
flavory onward. What we're seeing nothing new. I think the
attention that's being put to it now is due to
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the fact that we have the Internet, we have social media,
and so people are physically seeing it. Okay, but what
we're seeing it's really nothing new, unfortunately. So and I guess, um,
I appreciate you because I think these kind of conversations
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need to happen. Um. I heard a friend just shutting
light just more on fertility and just what it means.
You know, I'm not sure if it's in the forefront
of a lot of people of color, because oftentimes it's like, hey,
you better not go out there and get pregnant. It's
like a slash of no, no, no. While in other cultures,
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I understand that it's something that's pre planned. You know,
there's a fund that you may put together that you
may hit to your your medical whether it's the fun
for you to freeze your eggs. So it's something that
the conversation is on top of mine and where the
placement and where you are. And as I see these
more conversations happening. I think of even a close family
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member experiencing preclamsia, a serious moment where could have lost
her life, and for some they've never even heard about it. Yeah,
I'm a little uh jaded. As far as individuals not
knowing about certain medical conditions that are relatively common, you
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have to wonder what kind of conversations are being had
with their healthcare providers, and then that they don't know
about about the most basic things that can happen during
pregnancy like diabetes and so and so on. So it's
important to have shows like this that that spread information.
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Thank you, because you know, I think oftentimes, um, when
you're even selecting your insurance provider, to even know what
exactly are you selecting and what it means understanding that
there are books out there that explain with the code.
So depending on your family, depending on your dynamic, pretending
on your individual needs, ensuring that the coverage is under there,
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do you have a recommendation as a site or where
is the first go to to understand coverage? Maybe in
the O, B, G Y N world. Um, that's an
interesting question. I cannot say that I have a go to.
I think that if you're looking for a particular physician
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of color, I think it might be proven for you
to look at various UH websites or organizations. UH. There's
black doctor dot org. There is the National Medical Association
that has branches in every UH state. UH there are
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headquarters in Washington, and it's helpful to maybe reach out
to them UH and see what positions are in your
area and what insurances they take. Okay, because I know
even for myself of just looking at sometimes it's hard.
It's like it's no not knowing where to go. And
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it's good to know that you can have a site
such as black doctor dot org that you can give
people that look like you can understand the converse, station
can understand the dized disparities that you're experiencing. So along
with the idea of we're talking about the lack of
vitamin D and comes to fertility, we understand that there's
an overarching theme as well of just women's health overall,
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talking about obesity and diabetes, and we know that that's
something that plagues the African American culture. Can you give
us some more insight on that. Well, here's the thing.
When you look at what your grandparents, great great grandparents,
and pretty much ape from the land. I would say
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that most people in the United States, you know, they
hail um southern roots. Now, the diet was primarily at
that time Alan from the earth. Um, we're no additives
to it. Whereas now you look at our diet, everything
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is packaged, process best and filled with sugar corn syrup.
So you know your diet concludes to your health. Uh,
your diet built sugar increases your risk for a reason,
obesity as they become a pandemic in the black community,
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and as such, you see a lot of things coming
out of that. You see diabetes, you see heart disease,
you see high blood pressure. So now you've got a
whole the whole generation of people who have been impacted
by their diet who now have these comorbidities. Wow. And
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it's interesting that when you talk about how systemic racism
place a factor. Um, there's a time when I was
on public assistance, so I would have to go in
the neighborhoods to go to my instrength. And if you
look around at places to eat, everything is processed. And
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I'm talking mounts down where it's like, well, what is
in that Burger, So the option isn't even there. And
even for myself, where I've seen a huge change in
my lifestyle is that I blended in a bit of
a vegan diet. Me too, Come on now, me too.
And you know that there is something said or a
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vegan diet. It's certainly hard helping. We're not being exposed
to the hormones that have been interested into Um, it's
readily digest helpful for the gut bio. You know, in
your gut bio has been down to be very much
correlated with your health. So you know I'm not a
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but at least three to four days, uh, you know,
I'm eating diet and it feels good. I think also too,
it's a thing where we have to realize the balance. Um.
You know, I briefly mentioned I talked about the proclampsia,
but even when you're looking at obesity, to me, it's
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just pressure restriction and like a lot of the weight
and if it's a lot of the foods and the
process and it's like a moment of things need to
flow through and relax. And when we were talking about
you said, hey, I'm doing it three to four times
a week. I think it's that flexibility of balance. And
that's when I try to talk about with vitamin D
as well. I talk about how being you are your
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greatest assect. And it's about a balance because when you
talk about your life, bank accounts about what you put
in and what you take out. And let's face it,
if you you may not be a person that is
going to be three sixty five seven days a week
where you're eating vegan. But it's just taking the first
step and figuring out ways to balance. I think that
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we as the people really need to look at what
we're eating and really kind of grow back to how
your ancestors in okay, in in my family, the women
in a long time, you know, and longevity life feel
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is related to your diet. You know, my great grandmother lived,
to be honest, it before she lived off the earth.
You know, my my grandmother, Um, you know, she she's
come at the age of seventy from heart disease. But
then I looked at which about a fried foods you know. Um,
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so you learned and you to think about what is
best and and how we should move forward in life
by reculating your diet. And that's the mastery. Um. To
really have control of self. And that's why I really
love um the bridge and how you're coming in and
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you're talking about the importance of vitamin d UM because
it's about just shedding lights on things such as this
to understand that you have to actively make a decision
to love yourself and to do better. Because we can't
control the cars that we are dealt and like, but
you can control how you play it. So, yes, you
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may be in a situation where readily accessible the food
that you need, or perhaps you may have some pre
existing condition, but it's about the right now and what
you can do from there, because then you realize that
it only only affects you, but generations succum it does
it does? You know? Best moms who have dieges, you know,
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get pregnant, end up having big babies, and those babies
are at any treatment of developing die in childhood as
well as into adult. So I mean, we've got a
generation now that we haven't seen years ago that are
heavy and diabetic as children. It can be prevented. And
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we also you know, see the development factor of just
young boys and girls and like you said, contributing to
the food. Yeah, all those normals. So let me ask
you this, UM, I want to get some clarity on
this vitamin D. Do you get that from dairy? You can?
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You know, vitamin D is pretty much limited and a
lot of the things that we so primarily dairy, you
get vitamin D from, but not a lot. Now why
is it that some doctors may recommend that? Right? And
when we look at dairy I hear there's a large
percent is of actually how much pus is in dairy.
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And when you talk about that this milk that belongs
to a cow is to uh help with nutrients of
a four pounds or however calf, why are we as
humans okay with drinking that. That's a good point and
I personally have thought about that. Um. For those who
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wish to have that, they do have to recognize that
there are a lot of things and cows milk that
really don't sit well sometimes with with some humans, the
lactose intolerance. And then as you said, you know there
are things in cows milk that they are not for
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humans per se. So you've got other alternatives soy milk,
almond milk, but the vitamin D level it is not
there in comparison account Okay, So I'm sure somebody's watching,
somebody's listening. They're like, okay, we get it. You're talking
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about vitamin D down, you're talking about inspiring Dr Gay there,
you're talking about vitamin D with pregnancy. But what if
you don't know what your vitamin D levels are? How
do you find them and what should they be? Ask
your doctor check your levels, or you can go to
this website power dot org get your own kit. Check it.
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Your level should be for nanograms permanent leader that's best.
And the kid, uh you know, it's very simple. Fill
out the questionnaire, complete the easy use kit and then
your results you can get online the conveyance and seven
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to ten days. Mm hmm. So tell me what is
the importance because I see in this kid there's also
a test with magnesium and omega three. How does that
play a factor? Well, magnesium is a great entry and
it's important in your body. It's important for your muscle function,
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it's important for curtia bascular health. Omega three's are again
important for brain functions and particularly if you're pregnant, it's
really helpful for people brain development. Oh wow, mm hmm.
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You can get a mega threes in in in seven. Yeah,
it's a good source. But those three nutrients are pretty
important for bodily function. You know. I had a chance
so check out some other interviews and you talked about
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even looking at the decades of life that there are
certain nutrients that people need to add or envitamins depending
on what age you are in decades you you are
in life. Can you talk about that a little bit? Well, Um,
I would say, if you're in your child going news
and you're looking to get pregnant readily, some things that
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you should take full of acid. Full of acid is
really important in fetal brain development. And if you've been
on oral contraceptives prior to trying to get that, you know,
oral contraceptives can deplete certain vitamins and nutrients in your body.
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So if you're wanting to get pregnant and you're getting
off of those, please it would be helpful for you
to start taking a creat a vitaminal full of asset
prior to conception. Okay, So that's one thing that is
really important. Um. You should also be supplementing your iron, okay,
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because pregnancy is going to involve a lot of iron,
you know. With that placental function and getting your red
blood self together to you know, take into account of
pregnancy effects. So I would say that if you're in
your childbearing age, you know, iron full of asset are
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really pretty important. When you get into your thirties and forties,
I think you should really kind of think of looking
at supplementing vitamin C. Vitamin C is really good for
your skin, you know, and as you get further on
in any reach, you know, the skin begins to show
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science of age, sacks and lines and stuff. So you
can take vitamin C not only topically, they're topical, but
also oral. Okay, So I would consider that vitamin C
is also important and im function, So when the cold
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weather comes about, you know, popa vitamin thing. Further on,
an aide as muscle functional coins, you might want to
start looking at mag supplements, okay, And that's helpful for
your muscle function and so forth and so on. Cocute
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ten it's also important for muscle function, particularly if you
know you find it you're waking up with sword muscles
and so forth. You know it's an antioxident and it's
good for muscle function. And of course vitamin D well,
I have to talk about that you always want to
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take your vitamin tea. Yeah, yeah, is that a vitamin
t um So you talked about interesting now Thomas changing,
and it stood out to me that you said, hey,
child bearing gears tons of changed. Have the child bearing
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window change because we see women way down the line.
I used the seventies sevent oh carrying the baby. Yeah, well,
I mean, you know, reproductive technologies have expanded. I really
did things that have done that you know certainly weren't
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done years ago. You got you drink transplane, We've got
all kinds of iv F procedures. Um, you've got something
that's not as pre implantation genetics, and you can know
what you're having and whether or not the child has
any type of genetic issues. But it's so uh an embryo.
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So you know, there are a lot of reproductive technologies
that are going on, you know, and women are waiting
longer to have kids simply because they might wanna, you know,
get their career off the ground, or if they have
particular things that preclude them from from their fertility. So
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you know, it's I mean, it's it's no surprise at
this point for me to have fifty year olds and
in my practice, I've had quite a few fifty year
olds having their first kids. Really oh yeah, So does
this um interfere with the cognitive development of the child,
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because I hear, like you know, when you're up in age,
oftentimes down syndrome and other factors can come to play.
That is true, which is why it's important to have
early prenatal care and genetic screening. And if you're going
through IVYB, you know, there are things that can be
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done to assess the genetic compliment of the embryo that's involved.
So if you are you have in your idea and
future to have a child, but maybe not tomorrow, should
you just start taking prenatal vitamins in general, just like
as an everyday supplement, I would take a multi vitament. Okay,
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if you're interested in having a within the next six months,
you're trying to get pregnant, activate and start taking your
patent which folic acid. With the folic acid. Okay, that's
important because I know, Um, I was talking to a
friend and they were just saying, you know, just to
stay up on these nutrients. And again, I want to
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thank you for coming on and talking about this because
you know, like I said, vitamins is about expam but
it's about being an instrument to your purpose and just
looking at the plethora of degrees that you have. Dry
you didn't come to plant. I'm studying in school. I'm
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still in school. I mean you're at Cornell right now, right, yeah, yeah,
I'm getting my MSMBA. What are you doing it for? Well,
here's the thing. Medicine has changed, you know. So, yes,
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I have the nth degree, so I know the critical
aspect of things. I have an MPH so I can
move around the public health aspect of things. So now
with the ms n b A, I can I can
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have an active knowledge of the financial aspect of things.
And it opens up a whole new world for me.
You know, I can be the CEO of something. I
can open up my own company. I can't the the
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limit you believe, the the the things that have come
my way, the offers that have come my way. So
the world is really my oysture. Oh you better speak.
It's from a whole different standpoint. So when it's I
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shouldn't say. When it's say, and because it's never done,
it's to keep going process. What do you hope, um,
what's next? What do you hope to achieve with this?
What do you want to see with black maternal health care?
I want to see I go to be equity, reproductive equity.
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I want to ensure that every blood pregnant woman has
a good outcome. Okay, I don't want it to be that.
I think that's had stepping care. You know, I want
healthy mommy healthy baby. And that's what it's about. You
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know when you think about life, and just like the
vitamin D right just the sun, it shines life, but
not for all its own vanity, but to give light
to the plants, the very thing that gets food and
fruit to us to live. And I guess I'm thinking
you because that's the same thing. And what you and
I are both doing here shedow lights so that you
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can give life for me. And maybe in a motivational
aspect of understanding how to love yourself and treat yourself
with such so that you can branch onto have an
opportunity to have a family, have an opportunity to have
doors opening because you decided to be dedicated and to
educate yourself, but more importantly, have the opportunity to love
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your self. Because I'm not sure that we see that enough.
And having you come on talking about vitamin D and
the idea of when it comes down to black maternal health,
I can't tell you how much that means, because without
your kind of work, I would not be here. Well,
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thank you, and so what would you say are some
of the ways? I know you listed some, and you
know I'm just looking up some information at some immediate ways,
whether it be as individuals or maybe a collaborative effort
in hospitals or in the healthcare realm, that we can
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take step forwards to improve, whether it be from our doctors,
from our dulas or whomever. I think that the first
step involves early prenatal care. I think it's important to
think about what you're putting in your out I think
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those are the two most important things. I think it's
important to look at your family members and look at
how are they Because how your mother eats, how your
grandmother eats, that's how you're taught to eat. So if
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you can look at those things and kind of make
the actually between nutrition outcome, I think it's a huge
first step. That's huge And just to piggyback off of that,
you mentioned it earlier, Um, a sense of knowing who
you are, and whether it's a sense of Norman's in
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your family trade, it's kind of like that vitamin D
light inside. And I speak about it consistently on my
episodes about when you know who you are, you know
who's you are, you know your power that you have.
And while we look at all these disparities of people
of color, it seems as though it's a stem of
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being stripped of your identity. Because if I don't know
where I've come from, I don't know where I'm going.
I don't know where I've been, I don't know where
I go. I don't know the genetic makeup of me.
So you can tell and do anything, but oh my gosh,
one not walking my authority when I know the power
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of the D look at the life that we said,
thank you. Now, if we want to talk about ancestry,
everybody on this earth, woman, you want to talk today,
(38:24):
everybody on this earth from a black girl from Africa.
Whether or not I think we should acknowledge it, but
it is what it is fact, and I hope that
we could come together and consistently make it a collective
approach because we get so um caught up and the
(38:45):
whole divisiveness of life that we forget that we have
to collaboratively work together. I mean we see it even
with the the elements of the earth, earth, wind, fire, water. Yes,
so it shouldn't be treated as any different now, Dot together,
Thank you so much for joining us. Thank you for
(39:06):
having me. How can someone find you? UM? You can
find me on my website dot com and my name
is spelled k I A g A I to h R.
I'm on Twitter and certainly I'm a New York hospital
(39:30):
in the Bronx. Wow. And also another thing I have
UM for my guests before they step out, I always
asked them to leave a dose of vitamin Z. Whether
it's motivation, it's inspirational, food of thought, just something for
somebody to chew on so that it can be a
(39:51):
nutrients for their mind by it and soul. What would
you have to sign you come from the first people
that work walk the earth, recognize your power. Well, thank
you so much, Side to Gather, thank you so much
for having this has been fun here we're talking about
(40:12):
the power of D and vitamin D. And I want
to thank Dr Keisha Gather for coming to the show
because you know, we talked about pandemic pregnancy. We talked
about what's working and what's not working, but more importantly,
how to work ourselves. And that's becoming educated. That's what
snowing what's going on. That's taking the steps to making
sure that you take the nutrients so that you can
(40:34):
start your family so you can cognitively work and your
best self. Because why you are your greatest asset. And
this episode was all about you deposit into you. You
hear me. You know it feels good to feel good, right,
So it's time to love on yourself and take your
health to the presidents of your life because what they say,
(40:56):
the most precious things are your health and time. One
without the other, you cannot this. So what do you want?
Just something to think about? So thank goodness for people
like Dr Kishi Gather who are putting this on the
forefront so that you can think about what the life
you want and how you're living your life. It's some
oldo self reflection. Okay. So now it's that time of
(41:18):
the show where I want to give you adultsur vitamin D. Okay,
So without further ado, this is a quick donce. So
today's dolt sur vitamin D is dedicated to being magical.
Would you believe me if I told you that she
were magical? Because guess what you are? Did you know
(41:38):
that you can attract anything you want out of line?
Guess what you can? Sometimes I think that we forget um,
the power that we possess, how we have the ability
to attract whatever we want out of life. And just
like an Ariana Grande's hit song, just like magic, she belts,
I get everything I want because I attract it, And
(42:01):
so can you. I mean, think about it. It takes
electric currents. You got your positive, you got your negative,
that can either retract or attract or repel in a
magnetic field. So it's that same electric currents that are
in our body and in our brain, and it makes
it possible for us to move, for us to think
a k a magic. So what are you calling forth
(42:24):
in your life? Arianna things that good karma is my aesthetic,
keep my conscious clean. That's why I'm so magnetic. Have
you actively thought about what you are attracting? They say,
what you think is what you become? So who are you?
Or better? Yet, who are you becoming? Are you who
you want to be? Take note for Ariana Grande and
(42:47):
know that you are just like magic and that you
can have anything you want out of life because you
can attract it. Well that's it for your dull Survitamin D.
I want to make sure you follow me on all
social media at Dawn Day Speaks and I want to
thank all of you for tuning in. Thank you for
being part of my dreams. This is only the beginning,
(43:09):
and I want to thank somebody special, Jeremiah. I wouldn't
be able to do this without you. Thank you for
stepping up and showing out. And this is just the
beginning and for you watching, I can't wait for the
next one. So until next time, always remember you are
your greatest ass at
Good morning, good afternoon, good evening. You are told into
the Vitamin D Podcast and I am your host, Dawn Day,
here to get you excited about your life. Now this
is your first time welcome. Vitamin D is all about
you living life on purpose and for purpose. And guess
what it's upon off my name? You know how you
(00:21):
get Vitamin D from the sun. Right, Well, my name
is Dawn and I'm here to shed light into your life.
And today I'm shedding a light on pandemic pregnancy, women's health,
and of course we're gonna talk about the vitamin Z
because everybody needs that deep And so I invited a
special guest of mine, the incomparable double sports certified physician
(00:44):
and O b G y N and Maternal Medicine and
Director of Paranatal Services at NYC Health and Hospitals Lincoln
in the Bronx, New York, the one and only Dr
Kesha Gaither. So, without further ado, ladies and gentlemen, it's
time for your dough a Vitamin D D. Right with
me and get excited. Hello there, Dr Keisha Gather, Hello,
(01:14):
Mr Day, how are you hello, audience, It's so good
to see you. Good to see you too. I'm jealous
of your weather day I'm there in California. You know,
we have to be a full representation of vitamin D,
so bringing light all the way around. I know you
got that sunshine, and I hope we're shouting stuff to
(01:34):
your way. Yeah, we we've got to ring. We will
get some sun tomorrow. You can get some of that vitamin.
So how are you doing though, How you been holding
up in this pandemic. Well, it's much better now. Um,
I can definitely say that when we were in the
height of it a bit much, it really was very scary.
(01:57):
It's a it's a change, is something different, you know.
It's a mote of where we're all going in, which
is a good thing right as far as within ourselves
and doing work and really evaluating. But while we're also
in a emotionalness spiritual sense going in, we're physically going in.
(02:18):
And that's why I'm so excited to have you on
because I talk about vitamin D from an inspirational and
motivational level. Okay, but I got you on to not
even sprinkle it there. But we're also going to be
talking about how important it is with health and black
maternal health because let's face it, a lot of people
(02:39):
are inside and while they may not have the vitamin
D from outside, they're sure getting some D from somewhere.
And a lot of people are having babies. And when
we look at the disparity in general, when it comes
down to black women and pregnancy and death rates and health,
(03:03):
one can only be alarmed and want to know how
does vitamin D connect? And so that's where you come there. Okay,
all right, so let's let's talk a little bit about
vitamin T. The vitamin D is made in the skin
in conjunction with sunlight. For people of color, the melanin
(03:29):
can um inhibit the normal production of vitamin DING. Now,
given the fact that we're in COVID and we're in
the house and there are a lot of people of
color for in the house, um it is it is
is certain that there are many people who are vitamin
(03:51):
D nutrition. So given that b let's talk about vitamin
ding and what it does for a normal human as
well as a pregnant human. So, vitamin D it's involved
in a lot of things. It's involved in your party
of vascular health. It's involved involved health, it's involved with
(04:16):
your mentation in pregnant women, it's certinally importance to have
high levels of it such that there's normal people bone
development and vitamin D deficiency has been correlated with an
increased risk of the term labor. Now, given the fact
(04:36):
that we are INMPLVID, COVID has a tendency to attack
more readily those people that are vitamin D divisions. So
for any woman out there was pregnant of color, it
(04:58):
is very important for you to be having a supplement. UM.
One thing that I would admize it's for you to
ask your doctor to check your vitamin D level. Any
pregnant woman that grace us my office, she's automatically getting
a D level chat question for you. So I really
(05:20):
like this. UM, let's go to a two shot at
Dr Gaither and not Jeremiah. UM. I really like this
because one of the things that I think about as
I'm in this age, in this realm of children, is
something that is on top of mind. And let's face it,
being in l a being a woman that is about
her career and in a vision, you know, that's something
(05:42):
that you want to ensure that everything's okay. And So
I've had friends and different people that have been close
to me that have been affected by five boys, and
I can't help but think about that when we're talking
about being in the child bearing years years. But then
also understand the vitamin D because I understand become one
(06:03):
and one, and while we're talking about the disparity of
how what is it three to four women more times
likely to die than white women while being pregnant, one
can only wonder what's going on here and how important
that vitamin D has taking place when it comes to
even the womb that is going to carry this baby. Absolutely,
(06:29):
So that's why I am recommend that every woman in
childbearing age or pregnant anything with the vitamin D level.
It's good to have a level of nnograms. Your physician
can check your love, we can get your own kids.
(06:53):
There's a great website called our dot org where it
has a lot of one serious vitamins UM. You can
get your own kit. You can UM involved in research
concerning vitamin D. So it's a great UM option for
you to have if you want to check your own
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by the D level. Okay, so let's just talk a
little bit about the stats and what's going on. So
I understand an article that you published right, although the
US is spending a hundred and eleven billion dollars per year. Okay,
and this is on maternal, prenatal and newborn care with
and roughly what a thirty year time span death Black
(07:41):
maternal deaths have increased a hundred and fifty percent. Is
it just because of vitamin D? What's going on? Well,
you know, I think it's multime factorial. Um, let's list
some of the things. Lack of prenatal care or if
(08:05):
you go to natal care you're going late call morbid
conditions that have you know, basically expanded and cause problems. Um.
You have to contend with lack of insurance. Um, you
have to contend with a system that may not be
(08:29):
that nice. Two people of color contending with implusive bias
and racism, women that being listened to, women not being
offered the same treatment, procedures, et cetera that are offered
to other people who are not melonated. Um. So it's
(08:56):
a multi faceted issue. And so while we see these issues,
how do we attack them or how do we approach them? Well,
I think it kind of starts. It's fine, And there
have been leg flavors, particularly like Senator Adams who was
proposing legislation to address black maternal mentality. Okay, and there
(09:23):
it's a well bulleted bull bill sorry that that deals
with specific issues the ability to get pre named here,
the ability to have genetic tests and attention to those
women who are imprisoned, the ability to have UH expanded medicaid,
(09:49):
you know in that fourth trimester, and the fourth trimester
refers to the both partum period. So there are a
whole list of things that specifically address some of the
issues that are see in in UH Elevated Black It's
just basketballs me when you really think about it, how
(10:11):
there's so many pressures that's coming left and right, and
just in the times that we're in and we're talking
to all the racial disparities, and people can turn around
and say, oh, that was yester years not understanding the
ripple down effect that it affects a three sixty view.
And it's so interesting how people can understand how a
(10:35):
child can perhaps be traumatized in life and what let's
just say a thirty year old in thirty and say
in the first five years be traumatized and can understand
why this person is going in the direction of their life.
And when you talk about certain peoples of color, those
of Melan and Hugh, we're talking hundreds and hundreds of years.
(10:59):
So now that it is just a point of where
we're working in society. We're talking about the genetic genetic
makeup of our existence. And I'm so glad we're having
this conversation because I was talking to a good girlfriend
of mine, and I don't think people are at hearing,
uh to how serious it is when you are expecting
(11:21):
a child or trying to have a child, about the
traumas that it does happen in your life. I remember
when I was you know, my mom passed away with
inel but one of the things that she told me
she said don. She never said don, she said don.
You know, having a baby is like going through death
because your body is going through so much of a metamorphosis.
And so now we have a situation as you're explaining
(11:43):
things that have been systemic, things that have been passed
down in a mental place. Um, that's taken on the
physical and how it's another slash so to speak to
the development of people of color their existence. H Well,
you know what's interesting, Um, there's a book around called
(12:06):
Medical approchetype by Harriett Washington, and it talks about the
healthcare of people of color in the United States and
flavory onward. What we're seeing nothing new. I think the
attention that's being put to it now is due to
(12:30):
the fact that we have the Internet, we have social media,
and so people are physically seeing it. Okay, but what
we're seeing it's really nothing new, unfortunately. So and I guess, um,
I appreciate you because I think these kind of conversations
(12:52):
need to happen. Um. I heard a friend just shutting
light just more on fertility and just what it means.
You know, I'm not sure if it's in the forefront
of a lot of people of color, because oftentimes it's like, hey,
you better not go out there and get pregnant. It's
like a slash of no, no, no. While in other cultures,
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I understand that it's something that's pre planned. You know,
there's a fund that you may put together that you
may hit to your your medical whether it's the fun
for you to freeze your eggs. So it's something that
the conversation is on top of mine and where the
placement and where you are. And as I see these
more conversations happening. I think of even a close family
(13:34):
member experiencing preclamsia, a serious moment where could have lost
her life, and for some they've never even heard about it. Yeah,
I'm a little uh jaded. As far as individuals not
knowing about certain medical conditions that are relatively common, you
(14:01):
have to wonder what kind of conversations are being had
with their healthcare providers, and then that they don't know
about about the most basic things that can happen during
pregnancy like diabetes and so and so on. So it's
important to have shows like this that that spread information.
(14:26):
Thank you, because you know, I think oftentimes, um, when
you're even selecting your insurance provider, to even know what
exactly are you selecting and what it means understanding that
there are books out there that explain with the code.
So depending on your family, depending on your dynamic, pretending
on your individual needs, ensuring that the coverage is under there,
(14:48):
do you have a recommendation as a site or where
is the first go to to understand coverage? Maybe in
the O, B, G Y N world. Um, that's an
interesting question. I cannot say that I have a go to.
I think that if you're looking for a particular physician
(15:08):
of color, I think it might be proven for you
to look at various UH websites or organizations. UH. There's
black doctor dot org. There is the National Medical Association
that has branches in every UH state. UH there are
(15:31):
headquarters in Washington, and it's helpful to maybe reach out
to them UH and see what positions are in your
area and what insurances they take. Okay, because I know
even for myself of just looking at sometimes it's hard.
It's like it's no not knowing where to go. And
(15:53):
it's good to know that you can have a site
such as black doctor dot org that you can give
people that look like you can understand the converse, station
can understand the dized disparities that you're experiencing. So along
with the idea of we're talking about the lack of
vitamin D and comes to fertility, we understand that there's
an overarching theme as well of just women's health overall,
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talking about obesity and diabetes, and we know that that's
something that plagues the African American culture. Can you give
us some more insight on that. Well, here's the thing.
When you look at what your grandparents, great great grandparents,
and pretty much ape from the land. I would say
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that most people in the United States, you know, they
hail um southern roots. Now, the diet was primarily at
that time Alan from the earth. Um, we're no additives
to it. Whereas now you look at our diet, everything
(16:58):
is packaged, process best and filled with sugar corn syrup.
So you know your diet concludes to your health. Uh,
your diet built sugar increases your risk for a reason,
obesity as they become a pandemic in the black community,
(17:21):
and as such, you see a lot of things coming
out of that. You see diabetes, you see heart disease,
you see high blood pressure. So now you've got a
whole the whole generation of people who have been impacted
by their diet who now have these comorbidities. Wow. And
(17:47):
it's interesting that when you talk about how systemic racism
place a factor. Um, there's a time when I was
on public assistance, so I would have to go in
the neighborhoods to go to my instrength. And if you
look around at places to eat, everything is processed. And
(18:07):
I'm talking mounts down where it's like, well, what is
in that Burger, So the option isn't even there. And
even for myself, where I've seen a huge change in
my lifestyle is that I blended in a bit of
a vegan diet. Me too, Come on now, me too.
And you know that there is something said or a
(18:29):
vegan diet. It's certainly hard helping. We're not being exposed
to the hormones that have been interested into Um, it's
readily digest helpful for the gut bio. You know, in
your gut bio has been down to be very much
correlated with your health. So you know I'm not a
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but at least three to four days, uh, you know,
I'm eating diet and it feels good. I think also too,
it's a thing where we have to realize the balance. Um.
You know, I briefly mentioned I talked about the proclampsia,
but even when you're looking at obesity, to me, it's
(19:17):
just pressure restriction and like a lot of the weight
and if it's a lot of the foods and the
process and it's like a moment of things need to
flow through and relax. And when we were talking about
you said, hey, I'm doing it three to four times
a week. I think it's that flexibility of balance. And
that's when I try to talk about with vitamin D
as well. I talk about how being you are your
(19:38):
greatest assect. And it's about a balance because when you
talk about your life, bank accounts about what you put
in and what you take out. And let's face it,
if you you may not be a person that is
going to be three sixty five seven days a week
where you're eating vegan. But it's just taking the first
step and figuring out ways to balance. I think that
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we as the people really need to look at what
we're eating and really kind of grow back to how
your ancestors in okay, in in my family, the women
in a long time, you know, and longevity life feel
(20:24):
is related to your diet. You know, my great grandmother lived,
to be honest, it before she lived off the earth.
You know, my my grandmother, Um, you know, she she's
come at the age of seventy from heart disease. But
then I looked at which about a fried foods you know. Um,
(20:48):
so you learned and you to think about what is
best and and how we should move forward in life
by reculating your diet. And that's the mastery. Um. To
really have control of self. And that's why I really
love um the bridge and how you're coming in and
(21:09):
you're talking about the importance of vitamin d UM because
it's about just shedding lights on things such as this
to understand that you have to actively make a decision
to love yourself and to do better. Because we can't
control the cars that we are dealt and like, but
you can control how you play it. So, yes, you
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may be in a situation where readily accessible the food
that you need, or perhaps you may have some pre
existing condition, but it's about the right now and what
you can do from there, because then you realize that
it only only affects you, but generations succum it does
it does? You know? Best moms who have dieges, you know,
(21:52):
get pregnant, end up having big babies, and those babies
are at any treatment of developing die in childhood as
well as into adult. So I mean, we've got a
generation now that we haven't seen years ago that are
heavy and diabetic as children. It can be prevented. And
(22:17):
we also you know, see the development factor of just
young boys and girls and like you said, contributing to
the food. Yeah, all those normals. So let me ask
you this, UM, I want to get some clarity on
this vitamin D. Do you get that from dairy? You can?
(22:40):
You know, vitamin D is pretty much limited and a
lot of the things that we so primarily dairy, you
get vitamin D from, but not a lot. Now why
is it that some doctors may recommend that? Right? And
when we look at dairy I hear there's a large
percent is of actually how much pus is in dairy.
(23:04):
And when you talk about that this milk that belongs
to a cow is to uh help with nutrients of
a four pounds or however calf, why are we as
humans okay with drinking that. That's a good point and
I personally have thought about that. Um. For those who
(23:28):
wish to have that, they do have to recognize that
there are a lot of things and cows milk that
really don't sit well sometimes with with some humans, the
lactose intolerance. And then as you said, you know there
are things in cows milk that they are not for
(23:53):
humans per se. So you've got other alternatives soy milk,
almond milk, but the vitamin D level it is not
there in comparison account Okay, So I'm sure somebody's watching,
somebody's listening. They're like, okay, we get it. You're talking
(24:14):
about vitamin D down, you're talking about inspiring Dr Gay there,
you're talking about vitamin D with pregnancy. But what if
you don't know what your vitamin D levels are? How
do you find them and what should they be? Ask
your doctor check your levels, or you can go to
this website power dot org get your own kit. Check it.
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Your level should be for nanograms permanent leader that's best.
And the kid, uh you know, it's very simple. Fill
out the questionnaire, complete the easy use kit and then
your results you can get online the conveyance and seven
(25:00):
to ten days. Mm hmm. So tell me what is
the importance because I see in this kid there's also
a test with magnesium and omega three. How does that
play a factor? Well, magnesium is a great entry and
it's important in your body. It's important for your muscle function,
(25:21):
it's important for curtia bascular health. Omega three's are again
important for brain functions and particularly if you're pregnant, it's
really helpful for people brain development. Oh wow, mm hmm.
(25:43):
You can get a mega threes in in in seven. Yeah,
it's a good source. But those three nutrients are pretty
important for bodily function. You know. I had a chance
so check out some other interviews and you talked about
(26:05):
even looking at the decades of life that there are
certain nutrients that people need to add or envitamins depending
on what age you are in decades you you are
in life. Can you talk about that a little bit? Well, Um,
I would say, if you're in your child going news
and you're looking to get pregnant readily, some things that
(26:28):
you should take full of acid. Full of acid is
really important in fetal brain development. And if you've been
on oral contraceptives prior to trying to get that, you know,
oral contraceptives can deplete certain vitamins and nutrients in your body.
(26:51):
So if you're wanting to get pregnant and you're getting
off of those, please it would be helpful for you
to start taking a creat a vitaminal full of asset
prior to conception. Okay, So that's one thing that is
really important. Um. You should also be supplementing your iron, okay,
(27:15):
because pregnancy is going to involve a lot of iron,
you know. With that placental function and getting your red
blood self together to you know, take into account of
pregnancy effects. So I would say that if you're in
your childbearing age, you know, iron full of asset are
(27:36):
really pretty important. When you get into your thirties and forties,
I think you should really kind of think of looking
at supplementing vitamin C. Vitamin C is really good for
your skin, you know, and as you get further on
in any reach, you know, the skin begins to show
(27:57):
science of age, sacks and lines and stuff. So you
can take vitamin C not only topically, they're topical, but
also oral. Okay, So I would consider that vitamin C
is also important and im function, So when the cold
(28:17):
weather comes about, you know, popa vitamin thing. Further on,
an aide as muscle functional coins, you might want to
start looking at mag supplements, okay, And that's helpful for
your muscle function and so forth and so on. Cocute
(28:43):
ten it's also important for muscle function, particularly if you
know you find it you're waking up with sword muscles
and so forth. You know it's an antioxident and it's
good for muscle function. And of course vitamin D well,
I have to talk about that you always want to
(29:03):
take your vitamin tea. Yeah, yeah, is that a vitamin
t um So you talked about interesting now Thomas changing,
and it stood out to me that you said, hey,
child bearing gears tons of changed. Have the child bearing
(29:30):
window change because we see women way down the line.
I used the seventies sevent oh carrying the baby. Yeah, well,
I mean, you know, reproductive technologies have expanded. I really
did things that have done that you know certainly weren't
(29:52):
done years ago. You got you drink transplane, We've got
all kinds of iv F procedures. Um, you've got something
that's not as pre implantation genetics, and you can know
what you're having and whether or not the child has
any type of genetic issues. But it's so uh an embryo.
(30:15):
So you know, there are a lot of reproductive technologies
that are going on, you know, and women are waiting
longer to have kids simply because they might wanna, you know,
get their career off the ground, or if they have
particular things that preclude them from from their fertility. So
(30:39):
you know, it's I mean, it's it's no surprise at
this point for me to have fifty year olds and
in my practice, I've had quite a few fifty year
olds having their first kids. Really oh yeah, So does
this um interfere with the cognitive development of the child,
(31:04):
because I hear, like you know, when you're up in age,
oftentimes down syndrome and other factors can come to play.
That is true, which is why it's important to have
early prenatal care and genetic screening. And if you're going
through IVYB, you know, there are things that can be
(31:26):
done to assess the genetic compliment of the embryo that's involved.
So if you are you have in your idea and
future to have a child, but maybe not tomorrow, should
you just start taking prenatal vitamins in general, just like
as an everyday supplement, I would take a multi vitament. Okay,
(31:49):
if you're interested in having a within the next six months,
you're trying to get pregnant, activate and start taking your
patent which folic acid. With the folic acid. Okay, that's
important because I know, Um, I was talking to a
friend and they were just saying, you know, just to
stay up on these nutrients. And again, I want to
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thank you for coming on and talking about this because
you know, like I said, vitamins is about expam but
it's about being an instrument to your purpose and just
looking at the plethora of degrees that you have. Dry
you didn't come to plant. I'm studying in school. I'm
(32:32):
still in school. I mean you're at Cornell right now, right, yeah, yeah,
I'm getting my MSMBA. What are you doing it for? Well,
here's the thing. Medicine has changed, you know. So, yes,
(32:53):
I have the nth degree, so I know the critical
aspect of things. I have an MPH so I can
move around the public health aspect of things. So now
with the ms n b A, I can I can
(33:15):
have an active knowledge of the financial aspect of things.
And it opens up a whole new world for me.
You know, I can be the CEO of something. I
can open up my own company. I can't the the
(33:36):
limit you believe, the the the things that have come
my way, the offers that have come my way. So
the world is really my oysture. Oh you better speak.
It's from a whole different standpoint. So when it's I
(33:58):
shouldn't say. When it's say, and because it's never done,
it's to keep going process. What do you hope, um,
what's next? What do you hope to achieve with this?
What do you want to see with black maternal health care?
I want to see I go to be equity, reproductive equity.
(34:23):
I want to ensure that every blood pregnant woman has
a good outcome. Okay, I don't want it to be that.
I think that's had stepping care. You know, I want
healthy mommy healthy baby. And that's what it's about. You
(34:45):
know when you think about life, and just like the
vitamin D right just the sun, it shines life, but
not for all its own vanity, but to give light
to the plants, the very thing that gets food and
fruit to us to live. And I guess I'm thinking
you because that's the same thing. And what you and
I are both doing here shedow lights so that you
(35:05):
can give life for me. And maybe in a motivational
aspect of understanding how to love yourself and treat yourself
with such so that you can branch onto have an
opportunity to have a family, have an opportunity to have
doors opening because you decided to be dedicated and to
educate yourself, but more importantly, have the opportunity to love
(35:28):
your self. Because I'm not sure that we see that enough.
And having you come on talking about vitamin D and
the idea of when it comes down to black maternal health,
I can't tell you how much that means, because without
your kind of work, I would not be here. Well,
(35:50):
thank you, and so what would you say are some
of the ways? I know you listed some, and you
know I'm just looking up some information at some immediate ways,
whether it be as individuals or maybe a collaborative effort
in hospitals or in the healthcare realm, that we can
(36:11):
take step forwards to improve, whether it be from our doctors,
from our dulas or whomever. I think that the first
step involves early prenatal care. I think it's important to
think about what you're putting in your out I think
(36:34):
those are the two most important things. I think it's
important to look at your family members and look at
how are they Because how your mother eats, how your
grandmother eats, that's how you're taught to eat. So if
(36:57):
you can look at those things and kind of make
the actually between nutrition outcome, I think it's a huge
first step. That's huge And just to piggyback off of that,
you mentioned it earlier, Um, a sense of knowing who
you are, and whether it's a sense of Norman's in
(37:19):
your family trade, it's kind of like that vitamin D
light inside. And I speak about it consistently on my
episodes about when you know who you are, you know
who's you are, you know your power that you have.
And while we look at all these disparities of people
of color, it seems as though it's a stem of
(37:42):
being stripped of your identity. Because if I don't know
where I've come from, I don't know where I'm going.
I don't know where I've been, I don't know where
I go. I don't know the genetic makeup of me.
So you can tell and do anything, but oh my gosh,
one not walking my authority when I know the power
(38:04):
of the D look at the life that we said,
thank you. Now, if we want to talk about ancestry,
everybody on this earth, woman, you want to talk today,
(38:24):
everybody on this earth from a black girl from Africa.
Whether or not I think we should acknowledge it, but
it is what it is fact, and I hope that
we could come together and consistently make it a collective
approach because we get so um caught up and the
(38:45):
whole divisiveness of life that we forget that we have
to collaboratively work together. I mean we see it even
with the the elements of the earth, earth, wind, fire, water. Yes,
so it shouldn't be treated as any different now, Dot together,
Thank you so much for joining us. Thank you for
(39:06):
having me. How can someone find you? UM? You can
find me on my website dot com and my name
is spelled k I A g A I to h R.
I'm on Twitter and certainly I'm a New York hospital
(39:30):
in the Bronx. Wow. And also another thing I have
UM for my guests before they step out, I always
asked them to leave a dose of vitamin Z. Whether
it's motivation, it's inspirational, food of thought, just something for
somebody to chew on so that it can be a
(39:51):
nutrients for their mind by it and soul. What would
you have to sign you come from the first people
that work walk the earth, recognize your power. Well, thank
you so much, Side to Gather, thank you so much
for having this has been fun here we're talking about
(40:12):
the power of D and vitamin D. And I want
to thank Dr Keisha Gather for coming to the show
because you know, we talked about pandemic pregnancy. We talked
about what's working and what's not working, but more importantly,
how to work ourselves. And that's becoming educated. That's what
snowing what's going on. That's taking the steps to making
sure that you take the nutrients so that you can
(40:34):
start your family so you can cognitively work and your
best self. Because why you are your greatest asset. And
this episode was all about you deposit into you. You
hear me. You know it feels good to feel good, right,
So it's time to love on yourself and take your
health to the presidents of your life because what they say,
(40:56):
the most precious things are your health and time. One
without the other, you cannot this. So what do you want?
Just something to think about? So thank goodness for people
like Dr Kishi Gather who are putting this on the
forefront so that you can think about what the life
you want and how you're living your life. It's some
oldo self reflection. Okay. So now it's that time of
(41:18):
the show where I want to give you adultsur vitamin D. Okay,
So without further ado, this is a quick donce. So
today's dolt sur vitamin D is dedicated to being magical.
Would you believe me if I told you that she
were magical? Because guess what you are? Did you know
(41:38):
that you can attract anything you want out of line?
Guess what you can? Sometimes I think that we forget um,
the power that we possess, how we have the ability
to attract whatever we want out of life. And just
like an Ariana Grande's hit song, just like magic, she belts,
I get everything I want because I attract it, And
(42:01):
so can you. I mean, think about it. It takes
electric currents. You got your positive, you got your negative,
that can either retract or attract or repel in a
magnetic field. So it's that same electric currents that are
in our body and in our brain, and it makes
it possible for us to move, for us to think
a k a magic. So what are you calling forth
(42:24):
in your life? Arianna things that good karma is my aesthetic,
keep my conscious clean. That's why I'm so magnetic. Have
you actively thought about what you are attracting? They say,
what you think is what you become? So who are you?
Or better? Yet, who are you becoming? Are you who
you want to be? Take note for Ariana Grande and
(42:47):
know that you are just like magic and that you
can have anything you want out of life because you
can attract it. Well that's it for your dull Survitamin D.
I want to make sure you follow me on all
social media at Dawn Day Speaks and I want to
thank all of you for tuning in. Thank you for
being part of my dreams. This is only the beginning,
(43:09):
and I want to thank somebody special, Jeremiah. I wouldn't
be able to do this without you. Thank you for
stepping up and showing out. And this is just the
beginning and for you watching, I can't wait for the
next one. So until next time, always remember you are
your greatest ass at
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Dawn Dai
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