{"id":36820,"date":"2021-09-14T05:00:42","date_gmt":"2021-09-13T20:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/14\/we-dont-live-in-isolation-our-ancestors-trauma-can-affect-our-health-generations-later"},"modified":"2021-09-14T05:00:42","modified_gmt":"2021-09-13T20:00:42","slug":"we-dont-live-in-isolation-our-ancestors-trauma-can-affect-our-health-generations-later-himali-mcinnes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=36820","title":{"rendered":"We don\u2019t live in isolation. Our ancestors\u2019 trauma can affect our health generations later | Himali McInnes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our wellbeing is inextricably linked to our childhoods, which in turn is influenced by the lives of our parents and grandparents<\/p>\n<p>If there is one patient who has opened my eyes to my own cognitive bias and who has helped me to recognise the profound effect of the past on a person\u2019s health, it is my patient Arama*.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHey, what\u2019s up, doc?\u201d says Arama as he walks into my consulting room one day. He\u2019s weaving a little, his breath reeks of alcohol, his speech is slurred. He wants to get some antibiotics for a chesty cough that he\u2019s had for a week.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/14\/we-dont-live-in-isolation-our-ancestors-trauma-can-affect-our-health-generations-later\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our wellbeing is inextricably linked to our childhoods, which in turn is influenced by the lives of our parents and grandparentsIf there is one patient who has opened my eyes to my own cognitive bias and who has helped me to recognise the profound effe&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2540,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,897,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-maori","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2540"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36820"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36821,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36820\/revisions\/36821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}