Chronic Illness Trauma Studies
How Adversity Shapes Health & Why It's Not In Your Head
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The research presented in the past 3 posts taught me that adversity, trauma and stress during pregnancy as well as during birth and infancy increase risk for chronic illness such as type 1 diabetes and asthma. And that my mother and I had experienced similarly stressful events. This post ...
The Health and Adverse Life Experiences (HALE) survey was conducted in 2017. It is closed and results are now available starting here. The HALE survey is for everyone who wants to help reduce, resolve or reverse chronic illness and other health conditions. It's for anyone who has ever wished their ...
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