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What makes us the "w"ay "w"e are? "Some say it's the genes we
inherit at conception. Others are sure it's the environment we
experience in childhood. But could it be that many of our
individual characteristics--our health, our intelligence, our
temperaments--are influenced by the conditions we encountered
before birth?
That's the claim of an exciting and provocative field known as
fetal origins. Over the past twenty years, scientists have been
developing a radically new understanding of our very earliest
experiences and how they exert lasting effects on us from infancy
well into adulthood. Their research offers a bold new view of
pregnancy as a crucial staging ground for our health, ability, and
well-being throughout life.
Author and journalist Annie Murphy Paul ventures into the
laboratories of fetal researchers, interviews experts from around
the world, and delves into the rich history of ideas about how
we're shaped before birth. She discovers dramatic stories: how
individuals gestated during the Nazi siege of Holland in World War
II are still feeling its consequences decades later; how pregnant
women who experienced the 9/11 attacks passed their trauma on to
their offspring in the womb; how a lab accident led to the
discovery of a common household chemical that can harm the
developing fetus; how the study of a century-old flu pandemic
reveals the high personal and societal costs of poor prenatal
experience.
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Origins "also brings to light astonishing scientific findings: how
a single exposure to an environmental toxin may produce damage that
is passed on to multiple generations; how conditions as varied as
diabetes, heart disease, and mental illness may get their start in
utero; why the womb is medicine's latest target for the promotion
of lifelong health, from preventing cancer to reducing obesity. The
fetus is not an inert being, but an active and dynamic creature,
responding and adapting as it readies itself for life in the
particular world it will enter. The pregnant woman is not merely a
source of potential harm to her fetus, as she is so often reminded,
but a source of influence on her future child that is far more
powerful and positive than we ever knew. And pregnancy is not a
nine-month wait for the big event of birth, but a momentous period
unto itself, a cradle of individual strength and wellness and a
crucible of public health and social equality.
With the intimacy of a personal memoir and the sweep of a
scientific revolution, "Origins "presents a stunning new vision of
our beginnings that will change the way you think about yourself,
your children, and human nature itself.
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