This is Marit's Parkinson's Story and Asthma Story. I call her story a #Chrillog, which stands for "chronic illness weblogs," in which we look at our journeys through a nervous system and trauma lens. Introduction My name is Marit, I am 58 years old and I live in Norway. I worked as a nurse ...
Chronic Illnesses
Type 2 Diabetes and Trauma: 8 Categories of Adversity Increase Risk (+Tips, Fact Sheet and Why It’s Not Your Fault)
Get the Free Fact Sheet & Post The forms will appear momentarily Chapters Preface A New Model The New Model: Weight is Not the Cause There is a profound and deeply shaming stigma assigned to larger bodies or having type 2 diabetes (T2D) in our culture. T2D is ...
My PreDiabetes Story: Overweight, “Sugar Crashes,” and Trauma (+ My Type 2 Diabetes Talk at Avaiya’s Free Online Summit)
This is my story of prediabetes and trauma. It is one reason for the series of posts I'm doing this month on type 2 diabetes, the most common form of diabetes and one that is at epidemic levels in the US and other developed countries. The under-appreciated role of adversity as a risk factor is ...
Trauma and Type 1 Diabetes: Dan’s Onset Story and Symptoms (With Research That Explains It)
Have you ever wondered whether trauma can cause the autoimmune form of diabetes? Or if there is, at the very least, any research about links between trauma and type 1 diabetes (T1D)? Or if trauma contributed to your risk of developing some other chronic illness, whatever it may be? The science ...
IIA. ME/CFS and The Cell Danger Response: How Adversity Triggers the Freeze Response and How the CDR Gets Stuck (Includes Surveys)
I've described how chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) is a disease driven by a cell danger response (CDR) and a nervous system caught in a threat response of freeze and some of us with an underlying fight/flight response (wired and tired) in Part 1. This second post describes how the CDR gets stuck ...
IIB. ME/CFS Surveys (The Cell Danger Response and Hibernation Series)
This post contains a group of chronic fatigue syndrome questionnaires (ME/CFS surveys) and serves as a short companion to other, more detailed blog posts. Post I introduces Dr. Robert Naviaux' research on the cell danger response (CDR) and how ME/CFS represents a metabolic state of freeze. Post IIA ...
I. ME/CFS and Freeze: A Metabolic State of Hibernation That is Not in Your Head (The Cell Danger Response and Polyvagal Theory)
This post, also a guest post on Cort Johnson's Health Rising blog about chronic fatigue syndrome (aka ME/CFS), introduces the relationship between ME/CFS and freeze states. These occur in the nervous system, in our cells and in all kinds of tissues in the body (updated October 2020). The science ...
#6 Trauma Triggers Type 1 Diabetes and Other Diseases (Buffers, ACEs, Delayed Onset after Trauma+)
In this 6th post of my discovery series, I review 25 years of studies examining links between stress, trauma and adverse events, and type 1 diabetes (T1D). The findings support the long-held suspicion that serious life events increase risk for type 1 diabetes. Whether you have T1D or a different ...
#5 Stress, Trauma and Type 1 Diabetes: 7 Reasons Doctors Dismiss Trauma as a Risk Factor for Disease
Despite observed links between stress, trauma and type 1 diabetes (T1D) for over 2000 years, most doctors don't know about the research. Despite 40 years of more specific, recent research showing that serious life events and trauma increase risk for T1D, the idea is still dismissed. This means ...