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Ven Mary of Agreda writes that when the Virgin said "Fiat", her heart throbbed so vehemently that it bled three droplets, which God used to form the Body of Christ.
Obviously it's doctrinal that he was conceived without seed, but I always assumed Jesus was made to have DNA that was identical to what it would have been if Joseph really was his biological father.
This is big news, and it's really about food.
The trial (University of Colorado, 206 pregnant women) gave 9,000 mg/day of phosphatidylcholine from 16 weeks until delivery. At ages 3 to 4, their kids averaged 7.78 IQ points higher than placebo. The authors call phosphatidylcholine "the form of choline occurring naturally in food."
The best sources of choline (NIH):
Beef liver, 3 oz: 356 mg
Eggs, 1 large: 147 mg
Beef top round, 3 oz: 117 mg
Ground beef, 3 oz: 72 mg
Chicken breast, 3 oz: 72 mg
Compare broccoli: 31 mg per 1/2 cup.
The authors suggest about 900 mg of choline a day in pregnancy. That's about 6 eggs, or a serving of liver plus a few eggs. Or about 29 half-cup servings of broccoli.
Meanwhile NIH says 90 to 95% of pregnant women don't even reach the basic 450 mg/day, and most prenatal vitamins have little if any choline.
(Yes, they used a supplement. Attention problems didn't change, and a third of the moms dropped out before the 4-year visit. The IQ result was still significant.)
For decades we told pregnant women to fear egg yolks and red meat. I covered choline in a video (see below).
I suspect Choline is conditionally Essential in pregnancy. So why are we still steering moms away from the foods richest in it?
Study and my video below...