In the book "Brains at Risk - Protecting our Children^[i] Philippe Grandjean writes: "Our chemical universe currently includes a host of placental aggressors, some of which most of us have never heard of (and whose spelling is enough to give chemists a headache themselves). Worse, we may not even know we are exposed. No immune system can neutralize industrial chemicals, because their appearance is very recent on the evolutionary scale. They are able to resist our biochemical degradation mechanisms and can remain embedded in the body for years. It is hardly possible to eliminate them from the organism, except unfortunately for a mother by transmitting a part of them to her child.

Unwittingly, a mother shares her chemical load with her child. Environmental chemicals are found in the placenta, cord blood and other fetal tissues. "

Another passage in this book is no more reassuring: "The idealized image of the placenta - like that of the blood-brain barrier - preventing the passage of toxic chemicals may have been accurate in the distant past, before the invention of new industrial compounds. But this beautiful hypothesis is challenged by a very unpleasant reality, or rather by two realities that opened our eyes in the second half of the 20th century. The first of these revelations concerns alcohol, the other, a tiny virus that was thought to be responsible only for a benign childhood disease. Then an even more unpleasant reality was revealed - an army of man-made chemicals threatening the brain development of the fetus. "

Everything passes through the placenta

The author attests that, very recently, and with supporting studies, the passage of drugs or other toxic chemicals through the placenta has been demonstrated in a certain way.

Dr. Frank Ledoux confirms that tests have been done. They show that all the toxins from the cosmetic products that the mother applies to her skin go directly into the baby's blood. Indeed, this marvelous placental barrier is extremely efficient for all natural molecules that could possibly represent a danger for the unborn child, but it is totally inefficient when it comes to man-made substances.

Most food additives (coloring agents, preservatives, sweeteners), phytosanitary products (organophosphates, organochlorines, other pesticides or insecticides), a good number of adjuvants or excipients of cosmetics, poor quality food supplements or even medicines and vaccines are chemically synthesized molecules Sometimes derived from petroleum products or obtained by genetic engineering, all these substances are found sooner or later in the mother's blood. We all know that it is the mother's blood that nourishes the fetus.

We now know for sure that the placenta does not stop them. The baby is therefore directly contaminated.

Take for example dioxin, one of the most persistent pollutants. It accumulates in our environment, but also in our body and particularly in the fatty tissues. Women and mothers-to-be are inclined to generate more lipid mass than men. Breast milk itself is very high in fatty elements. Dioxin has a very high affinity with the fatty molecules of breast milk. This last one is thus eliminated through the placental barrier and via the maternal milk lovingly provided by the mother to her baby. Dioxin contaminates the fetus during pregnancy and the infant who is breastfed. This is how it is passed on from generation to generation.

Is it useful to continue to support this somewhat alarmist picture to understand that it is imperative to purify and cleanse the bodies of both parents before conception?

This cleansing is possible through various natural processes (drainage, detoxification, chelation, etc.).

[i] "Cerveaux en danger - Protégeons nos enfants" - Philippe Grandjean - Éditions Buchet - Chastel La Verte, Paris 2016