This 2019 rodent study from the labs of Dr. Michael Skinner at Washington State University found:

“The exposure of a gestating female during fetal gonadal sex determination to DDT can promote the epigenetic transgenerational inheritance of obesity and disease.

Transgenerational pathologies (F₃ generation) of late puberty, obesity, testis, prostate, and multiple disease were observed in the DDT lineage males. Obesity, ovarian, kidney, and multiple disease transgenerational pathologies (F₃ generation) were observed in the DDT lineage females.

Epigenetic biomarkers or diagnostics provide preliminary evidence for preconception diagnosis of increased susceptibility to transgenerational disease in offspring.”

For those of us who thought DDT was discontinued:

“DDT was banned in the USA in 1973, but it is still recommended by the World Health Organization for indoor residual spray. India is by far the largest consumer of DDT worldwide.

India has experienced a 5-fold increase of type II diabetes over the last three decades with a predisposition to obesity already present at birth in much of the population. Although a large number of factors may contribute to this increased incidence of obesity, the potential contribution of ancestral toxicant exposures in the induction of obesity susceptibility requires further investigation.”

Where are the human studies of this subject? Why aren’t follow-on generations’ diseases traced to the likely sources?

How many F₃ great-grandchildren of women exposed to DDT during pregnancy are alive today? Millions, tens of millions?

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6536675 “Sperm epimutation biomarkers of obesity and pathologies following DDT induced epigenetic transgenerational inheritance of disease”