You know when you see fat people they look like they were always fat, like it was inherited from fat mothers and fathers. Well you might be right…….half right. And it is true that those in school who were fat still seem fatter twenty years later. So why is that? Well a new study out helps explain it. That plus what I have written in Life Before Birth will give us a good idea what that is all about.
The study (“Epigenetic Gene Promoter methylation at birth is associated with Child’s Later Adiposity’ (fat) Godfrey, K.M. et al. Diabetes, May 2011) What it states is that a mother’s intake of food during pregnancy produces epigenetic marks on genes producing a tendency to be fat at age nine and after. Now as I have written before, that epigenetic mark resulting from changes in the methyl is called methylation and is, in my terms, what produces the imprint. It was changed by mother’s fat and her nutrient intake while carrying; increased fat mass along with low carbohydrate levels. This may cause hyper-methylation and a tendency for heaviness in the child. Because the child first learns the most important lesson of her life; what kind of world to expect and what kind and how much she should eat. Her dietary regime is being formed. If it is saying, “you don’t have enough and you need to eat more” then that is the lifelong message. It is not heredity, although it may look like it because the mother is also fat. The big difference was the body fat index.
The link, they say, between mother’s intake and the child’s later tendency to be heavy after a few years is pretty convincing. The uterine environment and the human adult phenotype (how fat she looks) is unmistakeable, as they did the experiment with another group and found the same thing. What it shows is that experience during womb-life will track us throughout lives, and as I show in the book will cause serious disease, including cancer and Alzheimers Disease, in my opinion, and any number of personality disorders. It is the most crucial time of our lives when there is the most rapid growth of brain cells and organ systems. It is here when critical set-points for all kinds of systems and biochemicals are being set down. So there can be deficiencies in thyroid hormone, for example, or not enough serotonin in help keep pain at bay and make us comfortable throughout life. Here is where personality is beginning to be formed and here is where we begin to have weight problems (age nine) for the rest of our lives. Here is where we need to pay the most attention to our babies. If we are not calm and are fighting with our husband there is a greater chance of homosexuality in the offspring. It is not a time to be taken lightly; a new life is being formed.
http://news.discovery.com/human/poverty-children-income-adults.html
ReplyDeletePoverty During Early Childhood May Last a Lifetime
Children raised in poverty in their first five years are more likely to feel its effects well into adulthood.
By Jessica Marshall
Mon Feb 22, 2010 12:29 PM ET
THE GIST:
• Poverty during early childhood is correlated with lower adult income.
• Childhood poverty causes lasting effects on the brain and on the way DNA is expressed.
• Because early childhood is so important, researchers advise policies to address these problems should focus on the youngest children.
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It's no surprise that growing up in poverty makes it more likely you'll be poorer as an adult.
But new research shows that the earliest years of life are the most critical in determining future earnings. Even more strikingly, a growing body of research shows that childhood poverty causes lasting changes in the brain -- from its overall structure down to the level of gene expression.
These findings highlight the importance of programs that specifically address the needs of the youngest children, the researchers say.
"Early experiences are built into our bodies, for better or worse," said Jack Shonkoff of Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., speaking at a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in San Diego on Sunday.
"If you begin with the experience of adversity and stress, those get translated into changes in brain function and structure that get translated into changes in cellular and neuronal connections, and most recently, down into lasting changes in how the DNA is expressed," said Thomas Boyce of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, who has carried out several studies that show these effects.
Poor children perform worse in many ways, said Katherine Magnuson of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, from standardized tests to amount of schooling to behavior and health. "We've known this for a long time. What is interesting and emergent is our ability to talk about these as being caused by income per se rather than the range of things that are associated with poverty," Magnuson said.
An email comment:
ReplyDelete"Dear Dr. Janov,
could you please write about self primaling in your blog? I have met some people who know PT very well because they have read your books and articles. But they do not have the necessary possibilities (most often money) to come to the Primal Center - at least not in the near future. (As I was informed by your Primal Center there are no Primal Therapists in Germany or Austria you could recommend.)
But those people said that they experienced great relief by laying down and letting them fall into the up-coming feelings, all alone. Some of them are convinced that they even resolved all of their childhood trauma by reliving it alone.
So can we really reach down to second and even first line when primaling alone? Is our system capable of really letting go and losing control without the guidance and protection a professional Primal Therapist can offer? Is there always the danger of abreaction instead of a real primal? I myself have tried to let feelings come and I, too, think that sometimes I am getting deep and reliving… But what do you think about it? Is it a delusion? Is it much too dangerous and nothing but a mock primal? Or is it better to try and do it alone instead of doing nothing?
Perhaps there are more people who are interested in this problem.
Thank you."
And my answer:
ReplyDeleteI will writ e about it soon but it is usually a bad idea to primal alone. Yes you can let feelings up but to try to primal time after time alone usually leads to abreaction. art But do not think I will be there forever.
Hi,
ReplyDelete-"Yes you can let feelings up but to try to primal time after time alone usually leads to abreaction"-.
I can confirm that without specialist help the above is true.
Nevertheless I don't stop, I can't stop what is coming up for me now and has been for more than a year. Some of that is definitely not ab-reaction. Some say to me (and I ask myself as well) that now the process has started what point is there in going to the clinic? Well I tell you all, any of you people out there if you've got stuff coming up like me and it doesn't stop. . . .
Specialist direction. I need, we need specialist direction, then we need a buddying scheme with others in process.
I think it doesn't matter if we can't 'perform' very well in-front of others, particularly in-front of some-one with so much authority as a primal therapist. . . . I was programmed not to cry when being delivered to my boarding school. I was programmed to put on 'A BRAVE FACE'.
What matters is the attempt to connect with Primal and the ongoing support and methodology available only from the Clinic.
This matters because it is a lifes' work. It's not a quick fix and it is so essential.
Paul G.