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Parental Nutrition

Meaning

Parental Nutrition refers to the nutritional status and dietary intake of both the mother and the father in the period leading up to and during conception, as well as the mother’s nutrition throughout the gestation period. This critical pre- and peri-conceptional nutritional environment provides the foundational building blocks and epigenetic signals that program the health, metabolic set point, and disease risk of the offspring. Optimizing parental nutrition is recognized as a proactive, intergenerational strategy for improving lifelong metabolic and hormonal outcomes.