A closer look
Prenatal vitamins get all the hype, but skipping out on choline is basically denying your unborn child a brain-upgrade cheat code. Maternal choline supplementation—found abundantly in the highly demonized egg yolk—is hyper-critical for the creation of acetylcholine, a neurotransmitter that directly constructs the memory centers in a fetal hippocampus. Pregnant women require massive amounts of this nutrient, yet the vast majority are deeply deficient. Clinical studies show that high-dose maternal choline intake actively protects against neural tube defects and permanently enhances a child's spatial memory, proving that eating eggs might be the most aggressive form of early parenting.
