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It is well known that the quality of your baby depends on the quality of your and his father's genes
What is less known is that the quality of your baby also greatly depends on the quality of your eggs
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The Genes
Genes are carried by chromosomes that come in pairs. Each pair of chromosomes in the nucleus of the fecundated egg comes from the junction of
one of the chromosomes from a maternal pair of chromosomes and one chromosome from the corresponding paternal
pair of chromosomes. Since chromosomes carry the genes one may say the genes of a fetus are derived in
equal parts from his mother and from his father.
Your Egg And Its Mitochondria
A human egg is a giant cell as compared to the spermatozoa. A human egg contains thousands of mitochondria
(the power units of the cell) and other cell bodies. In contrast, the spermatozoon contains only 16 mitochondria. None of these 16 mitochondria enters the egg during fecondation. Only the head of the spermatozoon penetrates the egg. (The head of the spermatozoon
contains the chromosomial genes that the baby inherits from his father).
All the mitochondria from your baby comes from your egg only.
Since all the mitochondria of a baby come from the maternal egg, it makes good sense
to make a baby out of a perfect egg.
Planning your pregnancy well in advance allows the mitochondria and the
other cell bodies of that egg that will become your baby to be loaded
with all the products their enzymes need to perform their multiple and very
important functions.
Enzymes rely on vitamins and minerals. Therefore the mitochondria and the other related cell bodies need minerals and vitamins -- particularly the vitamins of group B.
For the details see the recommendations, for the effect of the method see the Results. Copyright 2010: Edmond Devroey MD
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