Happiness genetic – is it really too far out?
I love the idea that our feelings can influence our children, it’s so beautifully complex but not entirely impossible because of the link between hormones and feelings, and, hormones and genes.
Dr. Alberto Halabe Bucay suggested that the hormones and chemicals that result from our happiness or depression and other mental states, at the time of conception, can affect our eggs and sperm and result in lasting alterations in our children.
We already know that a mother’s stress during the first three months of her pregnancy can result in baby separation anxiety.
Dr Halabe Bucay says “It is well known, of course, that parental behavior affects children, and that the genes that a child gets from its parents help shape that child’s character. My paper suggests a way that the parent’s psychology before conception can actually affect the child’s genes.”
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090514101937.htm
