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Three Generations of Trauma Stored in Female Bodies Through Eggs Claims McDaniel
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"When your mother got pregnant with you, in her body were the eggs that are now in your daughters. Three generations at least. That's getting carried down the line, which is why sometimes we'll have a movement that's just like our mother. We are her body."
In a controversial biological claim, Kelly McDaniel stated that intergenerational trauma is literally encoded in female reproductive systems, with three generations of eggs present simultaneously in one body. She used this to explain why daughters unconsciously replicate their mothers' behaviors and why mother hunger perpetuates across generations, arguing the trauma is physiologically inherited, not just psychologically modeled.
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