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January 20, 2025
Mainstream science shows that delayed motherhood commonly creates countless massive metabolic health
risks and harms for the woman and her baby. One stunning example is delayed motherhood 's effect on Down
Syndrome risk.
Down Syndrome is a metabolic
disease.1 Down Syndrome
commonly causes these comorbidities, among others2:
heart anomalies
vision problems
hearing loss
infections
hypothyroidism
blood disorders
hypotonia (poor muscle tone)
problems with the upper part of the spine
disrupted sleep patterns and sleep disorders
gum disease and other dental problems
epilepsy
digestive problems
Celiac disease
early death
Governments and other businesses often stigmatize and even demonize teen motherhood, while promoting and even
glamorizing delayed motherhood. One example is the United States
federal government's Office of Population Affairs, which gives taxes to "develop and evaluate new and innovative
approaches to prevent teen pregnancy."3 Meanwhile, young maternal age greatly protects against countless
metabolic risks and harms, including Down Syndrome. Indeed, the youngest mothers are hundreds of times less likely
than the
oldest mothers to afflict their kids with Down Syndrome.4-5
Sources 4 and 5, below
References
References
Dierssen M, Fructuoso M, Martínez de Lagrán M, Perluigi M, Barone E. Down Syndrome is a metabolic disease: Altered insulin signaling mediates peripheral and brain dysfunctions. Front Neurosci. 2020;14:670. http://doi.org/doi:10.3389/fnins.2020.00670
Khoshnood B, Pryde PG, Mittendorf R. Ethnic differences in the impact of advanced maternal age on birth prevalence of Down syndrome. Am J Public Health. 2000;90(11):1778-1781. http://doi.org/doi:10.2105/AJPH.90.11.1778
Here in the USA, jurisdiction matters a lot. It is generally illegal and a bad idea for anyone but a jurisdiction-licensed physician to give
medical advice, anyone but a jurisdiction-licensed attorney to give legal advice, anyone but a
jurisdiction-licensed nutritionist or registered dietician to give metabolic advice, and so forth. This
website's information is generally incomplete to predict how applying it may affect a given visitor - because
the effects depend on the person's unique circumstances and characteristics.
So, here is the only medical, legal, and metabolic advice on this website: None of this website is individualized
medical, legal, or metabolic advice. It is general information. You should not try to apply any of this
information to your life, unless you know what you are doing. Generally, the governments of USA's jurisdictions
(states and territories) declare two things through law:
Without the guidance of a jurisdiction-licensed physician, attorney, or nutritionist: you do not know what
you are doing, so it is unwise and unsafe for you to make too many decisions about your medical, legal, and
metabolic status and circumstances, and
no one but a licensed physician, attorney, or nutritionist can safely and effectively advise you about those
statuses and circumstances - thus, it is generally illegal for anyone else to try.
Obviously, those standards are extremely conservative, if not heavy-handed. However, one should remember that
many of those people in government who uphold such strict standards have seen the stuff of nightmares:
predictable, preventable, terrible consequences when the
least capable and least conscientious people make the worst decisions - whether medically, legally,
nutritionally, or otherwise. So, it
is not wildly unreasonable to promote - even to legally command - erring on the safe side. Still, various
jurisdictions do provide some exceptions to those exceptionally strict standards under law.
Here in Minnesota (and in many other U.S. states and territories) a person can help you with certain
aspects of your medical, legal, and metabolic status and circumstances - even when that person is not formally
licensed by the jurisdiction. Minnesota, for example, allows various people besides licensed nutritionists and
registered dieticians to give metabolic advice and guidance: certain Complementary and Alternative Health
Care providers, which Minnesota allows under law. Minn. Stat. § 146A. Thus, one need not feel
completely locked into the strict standards listed above (though jurisdictions do typically still hold
alternative providers to certain basic standards under law). Instead, in the USA, one can discuss the
information on this website, and receive guidance about it, from various experts - whether jurisdiction-licensed
or not.
Meanwhile, this thorough and smart-sounding notice and explanation should not tempt any visitor into having any
extra trust for the information in this website. At most, as the saying goes: "trust but verify."
Sincerely,
Rev. Dr. R. Floyd Lindquist, Esq.
Her Metabolism: Founder, Treasurer, Secretary, Lead Data Scientist, and Director of Communications and Research
PhD (Thanatology), PsyD (Psychology), DLP (Law and Policy), MPH (Nutrition & Epidemiology), MS (Nutrition), MA (Counseling)
