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The Rich Roll Podcast · September 5, 2022 · 103m
How Trauma Fuels Disease
Gabor Maté on the connection between childhood trauma and adult disease. Unhealed trauma isn't just psychological — it creates physiological stress responses that manifest as autoimmune disorders, cancer, and addiction. The body keeps the score.
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Maté: children who experience trauma develop adaptive responses (people-pleasing, emotional suppression, hypervigilance) that are brilliant survival strategies in childhood but become the source of disease in adulthood.
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