Women Are the Portals of Human Perfection

I am about to make one hell of a claim, and I am completely comfortable putting my name on it. I believe women are god-like portals to human life, and under extraordinary conditions, a woman could deliver what I call a perfect human. I also believe the way humanity treats women may be directly connected to why the world looks as fucked up as it does today.

When I say "perfect human," I mean a human being given the greatest possible opportunity to develop according to their original biological, neurological, emotional, intellectual, and individual potential. Imagine a human whose first developmental environment is intentionally built around safety, nourishment, love, connection, acceptance, curiosity, nature, communication, creativity, autonomy, and complete physical and emotional support. I want to know what that human becomes.

The Chain Creation Theory™ is what brought me to this question. TCCT examines how experiences can become links in chains that influence later behaviors, expectations, emotional responses, relationships, beliefs, and coping patterns. I originally followed those patterns backward from adulthood into childhood. Eventually, that research took me through infancy and into prenatal development. That is where my understanding of the First Link became much bigger.

Science already gives us legitimate reasons to examine what happens before birth. Developmental science recognizes the prenatal environment as an important influence on human development. The field known as Developmental Origins of Health and Disease examines how conditions during early development, including fetal development, may influence physiology and health throughout life. Nutrition, stress, infection, environmental exposures, hormones, placental function, inflammation, and other biological factors can become part of the environment in which fetal organs, regulatory systems, and the brain develop.

Pregnancy, therefore, is an environment. The womb is the first physical environment a human being experiences, and the woman carrying that human provides the biological conditions within it. Her body is maintaining her own life while participating in the construction of another human brain, nervous system, cardiovascular system, endocrine system, immune system, sensory system, and every other biological structure required for life.

Now consider what happens when the woman herself is living in distress. Financial insecurity, violence, discrimination, grief, exhaustion, unstable housing, food insecurity, relationship conflict, isolation, and chronic fear are experiences occurring inside a body that is simultaneously creating another human being. Researchers studying prenatal stress have investigated maternal stress hormones, immune and inflammatory activity, metabolism, placental biology, and other pathways through which conditions experienced during pregnancy may influence fetal development. No individual experience determines who a child becomes, but mother and fetus clearly exist within an interconnected biological system.

Epigenetics makes this even more interesting. Epigenetic processes influence gene activity without changing the underlying DNA sequence itself. Research has found associations between prenatal maternal stress and epigenetic differences in offspring, including differences involving genes associated with stress-response systems. Scientists continue investigating how significant particular changes are, how long they persist, and how they interact with later environments. For TCCT, the important question is whether some of the conditions surrounding the earliest stages of human life can become biologically relevant to later development.

The developing baby is also receiving sensory information. During later pregnancy, fetuses can hear, and research has demonstrated responses to maternal voice and evidence of prenatal auditory learning. Newborns can recognize aspects of sounds, voices, and language patterns encountered before birth. That means intentional prenatal communication is worth exploring as part of the developmental environment.

If I had the resources to test my hypothesis, I would create an environment specifically designed around the woman and the human she is creating. I would begin with women who intentionally conceived through love and provide complete nutritional, financial, medical, physical, and emotional support throughout pregnancy. They would have clean water, excellent food, restorative sleep, nature, sunlight, appropriate movement, music, creativity, education, meaningful relationships, affection, laughter, privacy, autonomy, community, and purpose.

I would carefully examine what enters that environment. Food, air, water, sound, media, relationships, physical surroundings, social interaction, and environmental exposures would all be considered. The woman would understand fetal development and be encouraged to communicate intentionally with her child through speaking, reading, singing, music, touch, and everyday interaction. Pregnancy would be treated as an extraordinary period of human development deserving extraordinary support.

Then I would study the results scientifically. Maternal stress physiology, nutrition, sleep, inflammation, metabolic health, environmental exposures, placental function, fetal development, birth outcomes, and infant development could be measured. As the children grew, researchers could examine language, attachment, executive function, curiosity, emotional regulation, creativity, empathy, cooperation, physical health, learning, relationships, conflict resolution, resilience, and stress regulation. The research would continue across decades and, eventually, into subsequent generations.

That generational component matters because TCCT made me realize that the chain may operate in a circle. A woman grows up inside a society that shapes her experiences. Those experiences contribute to her expectations, stress responses, relationships, beliefs, behaviors, and physical environment. She eventually becomes pregnant while continuing to live inside that society. Her child develops within her body, enters the same broader world after birth, grows through their own experiences, becomes an adult, participates in society, and eventually contributes to the environment experienced by another generation.

This is where I think humanity may be overlooking something enormous. We talk constantly about anxiety, depression, addiction, violence, emotional dysregulation, dysfunctional relationships, chronic stress, and destructive generational patterns. These outcomes are complex and involve interactions among genetics, biology, development, environment, relationships, experiences, and individual circumstances. My question simply moves further upstream and asks what conditions surrounded the human being during the earliest stages of development.

That requires asking questions about the woman carrying that human. What was she eating? How was she sleeping? What was she hearing and seeing every day? What relationships surrounded her? Did she have healthcare? Did she have financial security? Did she have autonomy? Did she experience meaningful connection? Did she have opportunities for rest, creativity, movement, laughter, learning, and communication with the developing human inside her? What was happening inside her body while another nervous system was being constructed there?

A woman can literally be developing another human brain while worrying about whether she can pay rent. She can be building another nervous system while experiencing domestic violence. She can be growing organs while working through exhaustion. She can be developing another human being while facing hunger, discrimination, abandonment, grief, fear, or constant uncertainty. Then we meet that child years later and begin asking why they struggle.

I think we need to ask earlier.

I am not claiming that maternal distress automatically causes mental illness, because that would ignore the enormous complexity of genetics, development, biology, environment, and individual experience. My hypothesis is that a society repeatedly exposing generations of women to chronic distress may also be influencing the developmental conditions experienced by generations of children. Those children eventually become the adults who shape society, and the cycle continues.

That possibility completely changes how I look at women's wellbeing. Supporting women becomes more than an individual or social issue. It becomes a potential generational intervention. Improving nutrition, healthcare, housing, safety, relationships, autonomy, environmental quality, education, emotional support, and economic security for women may also improve the earliest developmental conditions available to future human beings.

This is why I call women god-like portals to life. A woman participates in transforming the biological beginning of human life into a human being containing trillions of cells, functioning organs, a beating heart, a developing brain, a nervous system, senses, memory capabilities, and eventually consciousness capable of examining its own existence. Biology explains the process. Understanding the biology makes the process even more fucking extraordinary.

Now imagine interrupting the generational cycle at its earliest accessible point. Give the woman security, exceptional nutrition, healthcare, clean air and water, restorative sleep, nature, meaningful relationships, affection, autonomy, education, music, movement, laughter, purpose, community, and complete support while she creates another human being. Then allow that child to enter a world built around communication, respect, emotional regulation, curiosity, autonomy, connection, creativity, cooperation, learning, exploration, and love.

TCCT suggests that repeated experiences become meaningful links in our developmental chains. If a child's earliest repeated experiences involve safety, communication, respect, curiosity, healthy boundaries, emotional regulation, cooperation, and love, I want to know what happens when those experiences become deeply familiar from the beginning of life.

Then I want to know what happens when that child becomes an adult. What kind of partner do they become? What kind of parent? What kind of teacher, scientist, artist, doctor, entrepreneur, neighbor, leader, or community member? What happens when those adults begin creating environments for another generation?

That is where my heaven-on-Earth claim comes from. I am talking about changing the starting conditions of human development and studying what happens when those conditions continue across generations. If environments contribute to the humans we become, then deliberately improving our earliest environments could have consequences far beyond the individual child.

Science has established that prenatal environments matter. Developmental programming exists. Associations between maternal stress and developmental outcomes have been documented. Prenatal auditory learning exists. Epigenetic processes allow environmental conditions to influence gene expression. Science continues investigating how these mechanisms interact throughout human development.

Science has never demonstrated that the environment I am describing would create a perfect human. That part is my claim, and I am completely comfortable owning it.

I want to see human nature under radically different starting conditions. Give me women who conceived through love and provide them with exceptional environments throughout pregnancy. Teach them about the lives developing inside their bodies. Give them every resource necessary to experience pregnancy through security, nourishment, connection, autonomy, curiosity, communication, creativity, and love. Continue those conditions throughout the child's development and study the results for generations.

The Chain Creation Theory™ started with me asking why adults repeat patterns. Following those patterns backward eventually brought me to prenatal development, the woman carrying that developing human, and the environment surrounding her. Following the chain forward brought me right back to society.

Maybe we have spent generations trying to repair human problems several links after their earliest influences began. Maybe one of the most powerful ways to change humanity is to improve the conditions surrounding its creation.

Until we seriously examine how we treat women, especially women creating human life, I believe we will continue reproducing some of the same conditions and wondering why generations continue struggling with many of the same problems. Change the conditions surrounding women, change the developmental environment surrounding children, and we may eventually change what those children bring back into the world.

I want to see what happens when generations begin life surrounded by love, security, nourishment, connection, communication, acceptance, autonomy, curiosity, and peace. I want to see what those humans create, how they love, how they communicate, how they solve problems, how they raise children, and what kind of civilization eventually grows from them.

Because maybe heaven on Earth was never supposed to fall out of the fucking sky. Maybe humanity has to create the conditions capable of producing it.

And if my theory is right, women have been holding the doorway the entire damn time.

Respect starts in the womb. Humanity starts there too.

Bianca Ocean Desmore
Creator of The Chain Creation Theory™

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