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A new trial gave pregnant women one supplement every day, and their kids scored about 8 points higher on an IQ test at age 4. What they took is more interesting than the headline
It was phosphatidylcholine, 9 grams a day, from week 16 of pregnancy until birth. That's roughly 7 to 9 softgels a day. The other half of the moms took a lookalike placebo.
Phosphatidylcholine is the form of choline your body gets from food. It's what's in egg yolks and soybeans. It's not choline bitartrate, the cheaper form most multivitamins use when they include choline at all.
9 grams of phosphatidylcholine works out to about 1,300 mg of actual choline. The everyday recommendation in pregnancy is 450 mg. So they took about 3 times the recommended amount, still under the 3,500 mg upper limit, and the researchers reported no safety problems for moms or kids.
Both groups were also encouraged to take a regular prenatal and eat choline-rich foods.
So the 8 points came from the extra supplement on top of a normal diet.
Meanwhile, most moms don't even hit the basic 450 mg. About 9 in 10 fall short. That's where food comes in.
One large egg has about 147 mg, almost all of it in the yolk. Beef, chicken, fish, soybeans and milk all chip in too, and beef liver has the most.
The study was done at the University of Colorado and published this month in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. 206 moms took part.
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🚨: A 9-year-old girl, Shreyovi, won an international photography award with an incredible shot.
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started yelling "violence!" while wrestling my toddler and now he keeps running up to me going "mommy peez violence?"
NEW: Children whose mothers took choline supplements during pregnancy scored +8 IQ points higher at age 4 than those in a placebo group, major new study finds.
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In July we open-sourced a dynamic graph of everything a child learns in primary school. 1,590 concepts, 3,221 dependencies.
Now we’re turning every concept into interactive experiments kids can play and learn from.
First one, age 7: heat and water.
Everything that used to be a boring textbook can now be an engaging experience, potentially tailored to every child.
Kids education just got a massive upgrade.
I wasn’t prepared for how much of a sweetheart my girl would be. Yesterday I told her I couldn’t turn my neck. The first thing she says this morning “daddy is your neck better”?
We built a simple page to help parents help each other use their robot assistants. Find ways to save time and share ideas that worked for you.
punchcard.wonderade.us/
Again how did Google miss this 10 years ago.
after switching our approach to building a "FirmOS", I'm increasingly confident that the future of agent collaboration within organizational settings is going to be a "company operating system" or CompanyOS, designed for agent and human collaboration
instead of a "company brain" that holds everything, the OS is for storing rules, processes, decisions made, which tools to use and how. it can mirror some data, but the source of truth is often best held in your existing tools (CRM, etc.). it's continuously updated and used by your agents
i think of this as a "flipped playbook" where instead of writing down the company rules first and following them (which is kind of like waterfall development), you're constantly updating the playbook as you decide or learn new things day-to-day running the business
We built a simple newsletter that helps parents find local adventures and plan healthy meals every weekend.
The backend leverages @typesafeai Jev to determine safety, convenience and quality.
Check it out here and happy adventuring.
punchlist.wonderade.us
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If you have a cold and you want it to go away faster, consider taking a zinc lozenge.
Aggregating data from three randomized placebo-controlled trials, it seems lozenges cut down the time people are sick by ~40%.
By day 5, 70% were cured with lozenges versus 27% with placebo.
I gotta admit @higgsfield_ai is really good at character swaps. About to make major orange a rl gymfluencer
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This is great parenting advice! It's most obvious when a kid falls. When the parent gasps and cries "oh gosh, oh gosh are you okay???" the kid always cries because they're internalizing the parent's fear. When the parent reacts with nonchalance and says "You're okay!", the kid usually doesn't cry unless it was a really painful fall (in which case the parent can calibrate accordingly). Sometimes you can witness the split second after the fall when the shocked kid doesn't know how to respond and looks to the parent for the cue.
The best way to calm an upset child is to be unbothered by the fact that they're upset.
Your confidence that they'll be okay becomes their confidence that they'll be okay.
I don't agree that it's useful or healthy to teach kids to dwell on negative emotions
Minor annoyances don't need to get "processed" as through they're moving through some multi-stage factory meat grinder
Especially with little kids, the most useful thing you can teach them is that they can just let those negative feelings go and move on to something else
Glad some many people enjoyed my oldest son getting distracted by a freezer
Here's my younger son getting distracted by a window
Did you know? Kids protect themselves from broccoli because it tastes like poison. But you can change their mind with some simple tricks:
1. Dips! It masks the taste.
2. Eat it with them! They learn by example.
3. Cook with them! Kids that cook eat 73% more salad.
4. Microdose! Just a little bit more every time gets them used to it.
5. No pressure! Kids get scared and want to try new things even less.
For something that tastes delicious and delivers the nutrients found in broccoli, try Wonderade 🧃
The biggest factor in consumer for converting organic clicks into actual dollars is controversy.
