Cesarean delivery and lack of breast feeding significantly alter gut flora. This has potential significant metabolic consequences--diabetes, asthma, obesity...The urge to deliver at convenient times may lay the foundation for our metabolic crisis in the US.
Mycotoxins deplete glutathione production and this depletion of glutathione is a portion go the toxicity/ill effects related to mycotoxins. This article also points to evidence that glutathione can actually be employed in the treatment of mycotoxin related conditions/illnesses.
animal model finds that glutathione depletion increases hyperactivity of bronchioles. Early exposure to glutathione ethyl ester, a precursor to glutathione, blunted the airway hyperactivity.
"The effects of developmental programming can be induced by the intrauterine environment (cigarette smoke, nutrition, and stress) which not only affect the fetus (F1) but also the germ line of the fetus (F2), leading to so-called intergenerational epigenetic effects. When developmental programming is transmitted across generations beyond F3, it is considered to be transgenerational and can not be explained by direct environmental exposure anymore."