Michel Odent has spent his life challenging the conventions of medical orthodoxy. Now in his 80s, the doctor who encouraged women to experience pain-free labour in warm pools of water and was the first to write about the importance of placing newborn babies to the breast has turned Cassandra. His new book is a warning to humanity that we face a grim future by our heedless embrace of medical technology; that the very techniques used to save lives are also changing the human race on an evolutionary level.
The Birth of Homo, The Marine Chimpanzee theorises that the way babies are delivered could be one cause of increased numbers of developmental disorders, psychological problems and addictive behaviours. He has interpreted epidemiological studies that show that a high number of children born by caesarean section or induction go on to be diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder in support of his theories.
It is one of the biggest problems for humanity today and people don’t realise that
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