STRESS while Pregnant - Scientific Study Explains"A few years back I did a story on homosexuality. I contacted a well known neurologist at the famous Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and a graduate of Harvard Medical School. He told me that brains have gender and that the gender is determined during the first three months of life in the womb. He explained how certain things could happen -- and sometimes do -- to result in the brain being one gender and the rest of the body being the other. He also warned me not to quote him on this because of the strong political and social ramifications. [see story here.]"
http://www.viewzone.com/homosexual.htmlHow Do Brains Get Gender?Embryology teaches that early embryos all start out as female. At some point in early gestation, if the chromosomes destine the fetus to be male, the embryo is altered by the genetically programmed addition of certain hormones, called androgens. These androgens, especially testosterone, instruct the embryo to develop male characteristics. In their absence, the embryo continues to develop into a female. "Abstract: Male rats were exposed to prenatal (i.e. before they were born) or postnatal (after they were born) stress, or both. The prenatally stressed males showed low levels of male copulatory behavior and high rates of female lordotic responding (i.e. "lordotic" refers to mounting behavior which usually occurs during mating). Postnatal stress had no effect. The modifications are attributed to stress-mediated alterations in the ratio of adrenal to gonadal androgens during critical stages of sexual differentiation. Specifically, it appears that stress causes an increase in the weak adrenal androgen, androstendione, from the maternal fetal adrenal cortices, or both, and a concurrent decrease in the potent gonadal androgen, testosterone." [6]
If the baby carries "XY" chromosomes and is destined to become a male, testosterone needs to activate the newly forming hypothalamus. This is the first known critical phase of "defeminization" when something can go awry, upsetting the master plan.[10]
If a mother is stressed during the early stages of pregnancy, she will release an adrenaline related hormone into her shared bloodstream with her unborn baby. This hormone, called androstendione, is structurally similar to testosterone, the male hormone. Both are androgens, but testosterone is more than twenty times as potent as androstendione.
It has also recently been suggested that testosterone actually breaks down to estradiol in some way that androstendione may not [12, 15], further implicating this androgen in disrupting the process of early brain development.
Because the stress hormone seems to mimic testosterone, there is the delay or blockage of the effectiveness of testosterone, even if it is plentiful. This causes a disturbance in the "defeminization" of the hypothalamus [7].
In Doctor Ward's own words:
"...The present data support the hypothesis that exposure of pregnant rats to environmental stressors modifies the normal process of sexual behavior differentiation in male fetuses by decreasing functional testosterone and elevating androstenedione levels during prenatal development. During stress conditions plasma testosterone emanating from the gonads decreases while adrenal androstenedione rises. The molecular structure of the two androgens, being very similar, it is postulated that the two hormones compete for the same receptor sites. Since androstenedione is a less potent androgen than testosterone, the decrease in male copulatory ability and increased lordotic potential seen in the prenatally stressed animals of the present study would be expected. The relative difference in potency between testosterone and androstendione has been repeatedly demonstrated. [Ibid.]
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My own insights...
... As discussed previously many Filipino mothers in the past recent decades were more STRESSED in their initial discovery of their pregnancies because they have no support system in place. There is no government support, there is no husband, boyfriend ran away, they do not know who the father is, she has no means by herself and her family is poor. She was brainwashed on 100% effectivity of contraception when such a percentage is statistically flawed. (US FDA states birth control pills have a 10% per year failure rate... just as an example of one type of birth control method.)
In the past decades when Filipina women were more often happily married or they were not mis-educated on contraceptives, they knew sex led to babies and welcomed pregnancies without stress.
Today's common urban Filipina is stressed at finding out she is pregnant because of the above financial reasons and contraceptive wrong expectations; she first resorts to taking urban legend means to abort her baby, when those fail, she just accepts the baby and carries on, or the baby may have been damaged by the urban legend means and / or stress.
And this does not take into account the horrible malnutrition diets and polluted diets and the plastics and the chemicals in personal care products as previously discussed.
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Note that I am not talking about the other kinds of homosexuals... those in the sex addiction category... will discuss those later on.
