| Optimal Prenatal Blend
East West Essential's Optimal Prenatal Blend
The doctors of East West Essentials created Optimal Prenatal Blend as an essential part of their comprehensive, integrative, clinical approach to preserve and enhance reproductive health. This prenatal vitamin and mineral complex is designed with the highest quality of ingredients to meet the increased nutritional demands of women's reproductive years. Several of these vital nutrients are not found in any other prenatal formulas.
Optimal Prenatal Blend is specifically formulated to create a better environment for woman to become pregnant, maintain a healthy pregnancy and to nourish the demands of nursing and early motherhood. Taken preconception, these vital nutrients have been shown to reduce the incidence of miscarriage, increase fetal birth weight, and lower the risk of neural tube defects.
Optimal Prenatal Blend prenatal vitamin provides maximum support throughout the most nutritionally demanding time of a woman's life her reproductive years!
Benefits Common to most Prenatal Vitamins
1. Prenatal vitamins provide the nutrients to create an advantageous environment to become pregnant and to maintain a healthy pregnancy.
2. When taken preconception, Pre-Natal vitamins have been shown to reduce the incidence of miscarriage, increase fetal birth weight, and help reduce the risk of neural tube defects.
Why East West Essential's Optimal Prenatal Blend is being chosen over other Prenatal Vitamins?
We Have:
Vitamin A as Beta-Carotene (non-toxic water soluable form)
1930 mg of Calcium Complex
Bio-available Iron (eliminating need for harsh chemical stool softener found in many Prenatals)
Added Inositol "super charges babies brain"
Added Biotin
Added Iodine
More Ingredients
Higher Quality Ingredients
Calcium Complex: Your developing baby needs Calcium to grow strong bones, teeth, a healthy heart, nerves, muscles and to develop normal heart rhythm and blood clotting abilities. If you do not get enough Calcium in your diet pregnancy will leech it from your bones which may impair your own health later on. Calcium deficiency during pregnancy has been show to increase post-partum depression and decrease healthy fetal development.
BIO-AVAILABLE IRON: Pregnancy increases the demand for Iron. Iron supplementation is often difficult to digest causing constipation and stomach upset. Optimal Pre-Natal Blend has added iron as iron peptonate which has an increased bioavailability, is gentle on the digestive system, and had been shown to be more effective in the prevention of anemia. Therefore, Optimal Pre-Natal Blend has added 30 mg of this hematinic formula comprised of highly absorbable iron to gently support the increased demand for iron during pregnancy.
IODINE: Pregnancy increases the demand on the thyroid. Optimal Pre-Natal Blend has added 150 mcg of iodine to our pre-natal formula to help sustain healthy thyroid function during this time of increased demand. Recent studies have shown that supplementaion of Iodine during and after pregnancy reduce the risk of post-partum depression.
BIOTIN: Pregnancy increases the demand for biotin. Optimal Pre-Natal Blend has added biotin to support this increased demand. Rapidly dividing cells of the developing fetus require biotin for DNA replication and synthesis of essential carboxylases. Deficiency can occur indiscriminately in a normal healthy pregnancy. Marginal biotin deficiencies occur in a significant proportion of pregnant women both in their first and third trimester. Therefore, Optimal Prenatal Blend has added 200 mcg of Biotin to our pre-natal formula.
INOSITOL: There is the possible risk of folate resistant neural tube defects in pregnancy. Therefore, Optimal Pre-Natal Blend has added 50mg of inositol to our pre-natal formula to decrease this risk. Studies show that supplementation of Inositol during pregnancy and while nursing "super charges" the babies brain.
| INGREDIENTS |
EAST WEST ESSENTIALS OPTIMAL
PRENATAL BLEND
|
CITRICAL
PRENATAL
|
PRECARE
PRENATAL
|
| Vitamin A |
8,000 IU
As beta-carotene
|
2,700 IU
palmitate and beta carotene |
ABSENT |
| Vitamin D3 |
400 IU
cholecalciferol
|
400 IU
cholecalciferol
|
6 mcg
cholecalciferol
|
| Folic Acid |
800 mcg
|
1 mg |
1 mg |
| B1 (thiamine) |
5 mg
|
3 mg |
3.0 mg
Thiamine Mononitrate
|
| B2 (riboflavin) |
5 mg |
3.4 mg |
3.4 mg |
| B3 (niacinamide) |
30 mg |
20 mg |
20 mg |
| B6 (pyridoxine) |
15 mg
Pyridoxine HCL
|
20 mg
pyridoxine
|
50 mg
Pyridoxine HCL
|
| Zinc |
20 mg
AA chelate
|
25 mg
Zinc oxide
|
15 mg
Zinc oxide
|
| Copper |
1 mg
AA chelate
|
2 mg
Cupric oxide
|
2 mg
Cupric oxide
|
| Iron |
30 mg
Iron peptonate
|
27 mg
Carbonyl iron
|
40 mg
as Sumalate
|
| Vitamin E |
50 IU
As dl-alpha tocopheryl succinate
|
30 IU
dl-alpha tocopherly acetate
|
3.5 mcg
dl-alpha tocopheryl acetate
|
| Vitamin C |
150 mg
Ascorbic acid
|
120 mg
Absorbic acid
|
50 mg
Ester-c
|
| Iodine |
150 mcg
from sea kelp
|
150 mcg
Potassium iodine
|
ABSENT |
| Docusate Sodium |
ABSENT |
50 mg |
ABSENT |
B5
(Pantothenic acid)
|
20 mg
d-calcium pantothenic
|
ABSENT |
ABSENT |
| Biotin |
200 mcg |
ABSENT |
ABSENT |
| B12(cyanocobalamin) |
500 mcg |
ABSENT |
12 mcg |
| Manganese |
3 mg
Magnese ascorbate
|
ABSENT |
ABSENT |
| Selenium |
12 mcg
Seleno-L-methionine
|
ABSENT |
ABSENT |
| Molybdenum |
25 mcg
AA chelate
|
ABSENT |
ABSENT |
| Chromium |
25 mcg
Chromium nicotinate
|
ABSENT |
ABSENT |
| Insotol |
50 mg |
ABSENT |
ABSENT |
| Quercetin |
25 mg
|
ABSENT |
ABSENT |
| Magnesium |
215 mg
from coral
|
ABSENT |
50 mg
Magnesium oxide
|
| Calcium |
1930 mg
Citrate, MCHC, Coral
|
200 mg
Calcium citrate
|
250 mg
Calcium carbonate
|
| Potassium |
15 mg |
ABSENT |
ABSENT |
| Succinic acid |
ABSENT |
ABSENT |
35 mg |
| Choline |
16 mg |
ABSENT |
ABSENT |
IV. East West Essential's Optimal Pre-Natal Blend sited research
V. East West Essential's Optimal Pre-Natal Blend ingredients and their relationship to fertility |