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

Auteur: Odent, Michel

Édition: Revised edition

Nombre de pages: 240

Éditeur: Clairview Books

Date de sortie: 29-03-2007

Détails: Présentation de l’éditeur 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 and reproduced here in its original form), the author states that different parts of the « primal adaptive system » develop, regulate, and adjust themselves during fetal life and the time around birth and infancy. « Everything which happens during this period of dependence on the mother has an influence on this basic state of health, this primal health. » He suggests that the later well-being of adults, their ability to withstand the « diseases of civilization » such as 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. Since the first edition of this groundbreaking work, research has continued apace, offering further evidence to substantiate Odent’s ideas. In the important new Introduction and Postscript, the author reviews recent developments and relates them to the central themes of Primal Health. This book is essential reading for all who care about the health of our children and the ongoing health of society as a whole. Biographie de l’auteur Michel Odent is popularly known as the obstetrician who introduced the concepts of birthing pools and homelike birthing rooms at the maternity unit in Pithiviers (France) in the 1960s and 1970s. 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. More recently, he founded the Primal Health Research Centre in London and has developed a preconceptional program to minimize the effects of intrauterine and milk pollution. He is the author of dozens of scientific papers and ten books published in twenty languages.