This website focuses
on the life period with the highest adaptability and vulnerability
to environmental factors - the period inside the womb.
An overview of the “Primal
Health Research Data Bank” (www.birthworks.org/primalhealth)
will convince anyone that our health is to a great extent shaped
in the womb. We have now compiled hundreds of studies detecting
correlations between states of health in adulthood, adolescence
or childhood and situations when the mother was pregnant. There
is also an accumulation of data suggesting that the way we are
born has long-term consequences, particularly in the fields of
sociability, aggressiveness, or, otherwise speaking, capacity
to love.
At the very time when such hard data are becoming available, other
scientific disciplines confirm the paramount significance of the
prenatal environment. For example, the conventional ways of separating
and contrasting genetic and environmental factors in the genesis
of states of health, behaviour, and personality traits are obsolete.
When contrasting these two groups of factors it was commonplace,
until recently, to refer only to the post-birth environment. Today
we are in a position to understand that the expression of our
genes is to a certain extent influenced by early experiences,
particularly during fetal life. This explains the importance of
the concept of “timing”, in particular when exposure
to synthetic fat-soluble molecules are concerned: intrauterine
pollution appears today one of the main threats for the health
of the future generations.
Please use the links to
the left to navigate through the articles and resources of this
website. We hope you will enjoy this site and find it useful!
