Beware of societal stress !
In our world dominated by greed, primal prevention builds our future children's power to transmit their feeling free to others
The facts
It has long been recognized that a person's social skills reveal themselves during early childhood [1]. Today, epigenetic evidence indicates that the most critical period of development of a new being already starts at its conception [29]. From this very moment on, its humoral-tactile-affective environment within the whomb and beyond should not be disturbed. Chronic stress of its parents or caregivers during this primal period, however, may have disastrous, long-term consequences on its development. Such early epigenetic impacts of genitors' stress on their offspring are as unfavorable in humans [2, 3, 4, 5] as they are in other primates and mammals [6, 7, 8, 9, 10].
Primal prevention consists in future parents taking measures that'll help them keep out of societal stress [65] during their coming child's primal period. Such a health promotion par excellence will benefit their "little someone" in the early processes of its building a serene personality, lifelong resilience [60], good psychic and somatic healths in the first place. Later, it will also benefit their grown-up child's own family and the community.
Primal prevention consists in future parents taking measures that'll help them keep out of societal stress [65] during their coming child's primal period. Such a health promotion par excellence will benefit their "little someone" in the early processes of its building a serene personality, lifelong resilience [60], good psychic and somatic healths in the first place. Later, it will also benefit their grown-up child's own family and the community.
A challenge
Young adults may be at a loss when trying to escape chronic stress and its various consequences for the child they're about to conceive. In the absence of adequate social laws, most of these new parents might envisage to call on third-type kin caregiving to meet the challenge of primal prevention.
As a matter of fact, it is hard to understand how public-health professionals and economic partakers – who largely determine the decisions of politicians – may still behave, in so-called developed countries, as if they ignored the distant early warning arising from an understanding of new life sciences much more decisive, for our future, than the naïve one which leads to consider personalysed medicine more as a solution than a social deadlock. Or is it ? [64]
As a matter of fact, it is hard to understand how public-health professionals and economic partakers – who largely determine the decisions of politicians – may still behave, in so-called developed countries, as if they ignored the distant early warning arising from an understanding of new life sciences much more decisive, for our future, than the naïve one which leads to consider personalysed medicine more as a solution than a social deadlock. Or is it ? [64]
What will change
Disquieting results of social-epidemiology observations in developed countries [16] will have to be interpreted as reflecting the overall effects of societal stress via its early epigenetic impacts on all of us during our primal life. Privileged young people already allowed to take a career break during their child’s primal period may be the first sign that a major cultural blind spot is about to be cured [11]. Sooner or later primal prevention will be common practice, because eveyone will have not only the desire, but also the undefiled possibility to devote their sustained attention to their coming child, in an affectively secure environment. As recently stated by Thomas Sowell [69] : "The amount of parental attention a child gets makes a huge difference in the future".