Primal Health: Understanding the Critical Period Between Conception and the First Birthday - Softcover

Odent, Michel

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9781902636337: Primal Health: Understanding the Critical Period Between Conception and the First Birthday

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ISBN 10: 1902636333 ISBN 13: 9781902636337

Publisher: Clairview Books, 2002

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Michel Odent, the leading pioneer for natural childbirth, indicates that the period between conception and a child's first birthday is critical to lifelong health. In this prophetic book, first published in 1986, Odent argues that different parts of the primal adaptive system develop, regulate and adjust themselves during fetal life and the time around birth and infancy. Everything that happens during this period of dependence on the mother has an influence on this primal health. Odent suggests that the later well-being of adults, and their ability to withstand hypertension, cancer, alcoholism and failures of the immune system resulting in AIDS, allergies and viral diseases, can all be traced back to society's ignorance of the vital importance of the primal period. This book is essential reading for all who care about the health of our children and the ongoing health of society as a whole.

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‘A revolutionary new book ... that challenges all our assumptions about health.' -- Vogue

‘Fascinating and complex theories for everyone interested in delving deeply into the complex concept of health.’ -- Here’s Health

‘Michel Odent asks the fundamental question: What is health? If you don’t find it easy to come up with an answer read this book. It is brilliant!’ -- Sheila Kitzinger, author of Rediscovering Birth and Birth Your Way

About the Author:

MICHEL ODENT was born in 1930. Originally qualified as a surgeon, he is popularly known as the obstetrician who introduced the concepts of birthing pools and homelike birthing rooms. His ongoing influential work in childbirth and health research has featured in TV documentaries such as the BBC's 'Birth Reborn', and in authoritative medical journals. Odent founded the Primal Health Research Centre in London, which focuses on the long-term consequences of early childhood experiences. The Primal Health Research data bank (www.birthworks.org/primalhealth) features material which indicates that health is shaped during the primal period (from conception until the first birthday), and that the way we are born affects our sociability, aggression and capacity to love. He has also developed a preconceptional programme (the 'accordion method') to minimize the effects of intrauterine and milk pollution by synthetic fat soluble chemicals. Odent's other principal research interest is the non-specific, long-term effect on health of early multiple vaccinations. He is the author of dozens of scientific papers and 11 books published in 21 languages, including Primal Health and The Farmer and the Obstetrician.

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