The Long Term Consequences of How We Are Born

This article is an updated review of the literature on the long term
consequences of birth. Current literature reviewed includes the topics of autism, juvenile criminality, drug
addiction, anorexia nervosa, asthma, exposure of antibiotics during pregnancy, the behavioural effects of
hormones, and caesarean sections and is offered from a primal health perspective. The article closes with
recommendations the profound changes that need to be made if this vision of childbirth is to be brought to a
broader audience. KEY WORDS: Birth, perinatal, asthma, autism, anorexia nervosa, drug addiction, criminality,
suicide, oxytocin, ethnology.