Remember when you were a teenager and thought your mom was out to ruin your life? You might have been right.

New research has shown what your mother ate, drank, thought and even the amount of stress she was under can all contribute to your health as an adult. “Our mental and physical health as adults is not strictly based on hereditary, it is based on epigenetics. In fact,” says Dr. Janov, author of the new book Life Before Birth: The Hidden Script That Rules Our Lives, “how we’ve been nurtured in the womb and our first years is at least as important, if not more so, than heredity.”

With ground-breaking revelations, Life Before Birth explores in impact of:

Womb-speak - the messages a mother sends her unborn child without saying a word
Epigenetics - the impact of experience layered on top of genetics
Maternal imprinting - physiologic signatures passed from the pregnant mother to the child
Oxytocin - the hormone of love and the role it plays in labor, birth and breastfeeding
Reverse evolution - why areas of the brain must be treated in the reverse order they developed in human evolution
Psychotherapy - traditionally treats the left side of the brain but should be treating the lower right brain responsible for much of our memory and feeling
The critical window - gestation and birth make up the period of our lives that has the greatest impact on our personality, disease-fighting ability, mental health, and even our risk factors for getting cancer

“My aim,” stresses Dr. Janov, “is not to alarm expectant mothers, nor to encourage legislative efforts to regulate a mother’s decision-making process during childbirth. Rather it is to alert us all as to the profound influence of gestational life.”

Dr. Arthur Janov, one of the world’s leading psychologists, is the founder and director of The Primal Center in Los Angeles, California. He holds a PhD in psychology from Claremont Graduate School, where he is in the Academic Hall of Fame. He is the author of ten books, including the best seller The Primal Scream, which have been translated into twenty-four languages. Dr. Janov has lectured at the Royal College of Medicine in London, Hunter College in New York, and Karolinska Medical and Research Center in Stockholm. His work has been the subject of a PBS special in the United States and documentaries in Germany, England, France, and Sweden. He has presented research to the National Institute of Mental Health in Washington, D.C., and The American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Website: http://www.primaltherapy.com/

Life Before Birth is available at www.ntiupstream.com, www.amazon.com, www.barnesandnoble.com and select bookstores.