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Currently in Ubud, Bali, so being exposed to lots of hippie bullshit (crystal reiki healing, anyone?). However, there's an idea floating around alternative medi
by peteretep 8y ago
Currently in Ubud, Bali, so being exposed to lots of hippie bullshit (crystal reiki healing, anyone?). However, there's an idea floating around alternative medicine that human families can inherit trauma, and perhaps this is a mechanism for it? Seems more likely that the effect (if any) would be passed down through socialization, but food for thought.
- alexyoung 8y agoTake a look at "Transgenerational epigenetic inheritance" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgenerational_epigenetic_inheritance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgenerational_epigenetic_i...) and at research into how epigenetic inheritance is cited as a mechanism for passing down trauma between generations. I read about malnutrition in world war II affecting several generations but I don't remember the source, and the Wikipedia article mentions the Dutch famine
- klmr 8y agoSame caveat as above: the existing studies are deeply flawed. So far, the evidence for this kind of trans-generational inheritance is very week, and there’s no plausible mechanism to explain it, either.