Your Clean Start Guide: The Truth About What’s In Your Prenatal

New year, new prenatal? Maybe it’s time. Here’s what to leave behind in 2025 and how to give your body the real support it deserves.

 

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It’s the season of fresh starts. But if you’re entering the year still taking a prenatal that looks like it belongs in a pharmaceutical drawer, packed with synthetic isolates, artificial colors, and megadose claims, it might be time to clean house.

Your prenatal shouldn’t feel like a chore. It shouldn’t leave you nauseated, bloated, or confused about what’s actually inside. And it definitely shouldn’t be made in a lab, not a kitchen.

Because when it comes to nourishing your body for conception, pregnancy, or recovery, real food works better than fake nutrition, and the science backs it.

 

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What's Actually In Most Prenatals?

Here’s what you’ll find in many standard prenatal vitamins on the shelf:

• Synthetic vitamins made from petroleum or coal tar

• Isolated nutrients that lack necessary cofactors

• Artificial fillers, colors, or coatings that don’t belong in your body

• Zero calories, zero fiber, zero fat, which means harder digestion and absorption

• No protein or macronutrients to stabilize blood sugar or support energy

Many even come in overwhelming trimester-specific packs, marketed to make you think your body needs wildly different supplements every few weeks. Spoiler: that’s not science, it’s sales.

 

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Why That Can Work Against You

Synthetic nutrients are isolated compounds, usually produced through chemical synthesis. They can be:

• Poorly absorbed, especially when taken without food or cofactors¹

• Hard on digestion, often triggering nausea or constipation²

• Stressful on the liver and kidneys, which must work to metabolize and excrete unabsorbed excess³

• Linked to health concerns in high doses, such as folic acid potentially increasing allergy risk when used later in pregnancy⁴

• Inflammatory, especially when taken in excess or without balancing nutrients⁵
  
  

Chronic low-grade inflammation can interfere with fertility, hormone balance, and implantation⁶. The very pills marketed to help you conceive may actually be working against you.

 

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What You Really Need: Real Food Nutrition

Nutrients in real food come paired with fiber, healthy fats, protein, and natural compounds that support absorption, hormone balance, and digestion.

• No synthetic isolates

• Organic, recognizable ingredients

• Naturally balanced doses your body can use

• Macronutrients included to fuel your body and stabilize blood sugar

• Anti-inflammatory by nature, not marketing

Real food doesn’t just deliver nutrition, it works with your biology.

 

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Nunona's Real Food Source

 

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You Don’t Need More, You Need Better

The truth is, you don’t need to take 12 pills or change your supplements every trimester. That’s not backed by science. Your nutritional needs during the perinatal window, trying to conceive, pregnancy, postpartum, are remarkably consistent:

• A strong foundation of micronutrients

• Blood sugar balance to reduce complications like GDM and preeclampsia⁷

• Macronutrients for energy and absorption

• Anti-inflammatory support for recovery and resilience
  
  

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Why Nunona Is The Only Prenatal You Need in 2026

We built Nunona to be the cleanest, most complete prenatal out there. No compromises.

→ Real food only, organic, whole ingredients
→ 27+ nutrients to support TTC through postpartum
→ 3-in-1, prenatal, protein bar, and postpartum recovery support
→ No synthetic additives or binders
→ Macronutrients included for stable energy and real absorption
→ Snackable bites in a minimalist pill box, no giant pills, no missed days
→ Anti-inflammatory formulation, made with foods that nourish, not stress, your system

Whether you’re starting your fertility journey, growing a human, or healing from birth, this is what support should feel like.

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New Year, Real Nourishment

If your current prenatal is filled with ingredients you wouldn’t feed your baby, maybe it’s time to stop feeding them to yourself.

2026 is your clean start. Make it real.

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References

1. Allen LH. Causes of vitamin B12 and folate deficiency. Food Nutr Bull. 2008;29(2 Suppl):S20–S34.

2. Institute of Medicine. Dietary Reference Intakes: Iron. National Academy Press. 2001.

3. Zeisel SH. Choline: critical role during fetal development and dietary requirements in adults. Annu Rev Nutr. 2006;26:229–250.

4. Dunstan JA, et al. Folic acid supplementation during pregnancy and allergic disease risk in children. Eur Respir J. 2019;6(1):00250-2019.

5. Cervantes Gracia K, Llanas-Cornejo D, Husi H. Causal Inflammatory Effects of Synthetic Nutrients: A Review. Nutrients. 2017;9(10):1033.

6. Nasioudis D, et al. Inflammation and reproductive outcomes: the silent impact. J Assist Reprod Genet. 2020;37(1):27–38.

7. American Diabetes Association. Standards of Medical Care in Diabetes—2022. Diabetes Care. 2022;45(Supplement_1):S232–S243.