The Recommended Dietary Allowances<\/a> were established specifically to address issues of nutrition that might \u201caffect national defense.\u201d Pregnant women were, to put it generously, an afterthought. A wartime oversight, perhaps. Less understandable: we never really fixed it. <\/p>\n Most reference values for pregnancy were determined not by studying pregnant women directly, but by modifying values for non-pregnant women \u2014 or men<\/a> \u2014 using a modeling method. Consider it a game of telephone concerning the nutrition of the human growing inside of you.<\/p>\n Enter Needed, a science-backed women\u2019s nutrition company founded by two mothers and trained nutritionists who noticed what the research confirmed: that women are routinely nutritionally depleted at the most demanding stages of their lives, and that the guidelines meant to prevent that are built on a foundation that largely excluded them. <\/p>\n Cue the deep breaths. This company collaborates with clinicians and researchers to translate modern evidence into practical, actionable support, and has made pushing for policy change (not just selling supplements, by the way) central to its mission. <\/p>\n Needed\u2019s current national campaign calls on Congress and federal agencies to update pregnancy and breastfeeding nutrition standards using population-specific, 21st-century science.<\/a> <\/p>\n Needed\u2019s supplement line is built on a simple premise: if the federal guidelines don\u2019t reflect what pregnant and breastfeeding women actually need, the product shouldn\u2019t either. Formulations are developed in direct collaboration with clinicians and researchers, prioritizing bioavailable ingredients calibrated to the demands of fertility, pregnancy, postpartum recovery, and beyond. The vitamin D gap alone \u2014 standard supplementation levels produce breast milk with concentrations too low to meet a breastfed infant\u2019s daily requirements \u2014 illustrates why off-the-shelf prenatal vitamins built on 1941 data may be leaving mothers and babies short, even when moms do everything right.<\/p>\n This article was written by Kendall Cornish<\/a>, New York Post Commerce Editor & Reporter. Kendall, who moonlights as a private chef in the Hamptons for New York elites, lends her expertise to testing and recommending cooking products \u2013 for beginners and aspiring sous chefs alike. Simmering and seasoning her way through both jobs, Kendall dishes on everything from the best cookware<\/a> for your kitchen to chef-approved gourmet meal kits<\/a> to the full suite of Ninja appliances<\/a>. Prior to joining the Post\u2019s shopping team in 2023, Kendall previously held positions at Apartment Therapy and at Dotdash Meredith\u2019s Travel + Leisure and Departures magazines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York Post may be compensated and\/or receive an affiliate commission if you click or buy through our…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":792045,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[37],"tags":[210,13161,1182,881,2107,2796,67,132,68,323312],"class_list":["post-792044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nutrition","tag-health","tag-health-and-wellness-products","tag-nutrition","tag-public-health","tag-shopping","tag-supplements","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-womens-issues"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116563993275032171","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=792044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/792045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Text](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/needed.jpg\")
Needed<\/p>\n