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APOEs (Adverse Pre-Onset Experiences)

Type 2 Diabetes and Trauma 8 Categories of Adversity Mead CITS

Type 2 Diabetes and Trauma: 8 Categories of Adversity Increase Risk (+Tips, Fact Sheet and Why It’s Not Your Fault)

Veronique Mead, MD, MA · January 21, 2021 · Leave a Comment

Get the Free Fact Sheet & Post The forms will appear momentarily Chapters 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 "largely the result of ...

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Prediabetes and Trauma: Overweight Sugar Crashes and Progress? Mead CITS

My PreDiabetes Story: Overweight, “Sugar Crashes,” and Trauma (+ My Type 2 Diabetes Talk at Avaiya’s Free Online Summit)

Veronique Mead, MD, MA · January 15, 2021 · 8 Comments

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 ...

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Planting Seeds for Healing 8 Categories of Trauma and Chronic Illness Mead CITS

Planting Seeds for Healing 8 Categories of Adversity (and Chronic Illness)

Veronique Mead, MD, MA · January 8, 2021 · 6 Comments

There are empowering, encouraging things about understanding the role of adversity and trauma as risk factors for chronic illness. Among the most important are that it provides opportunities. Opportunities for making sense of symptoms. Opportunities for removing blame. And opportunities for planting ...

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Can Trauma Cause Type 1 Diabetes? Making Sense of Dan's Story

Trauma and Type 1 Diabetes: Dan’s Onset Story and Symptoms (With Research That Explains It)

Veronique Mead, MD, MA · November 13, 2020 · 18 Comments

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 ...

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MECFS How the Cell Danger Response Gets Stuck in Freeze to Cause ME/CFS chronic fatigue syndrome #CFS #CDR Mead_CITS

IIA. ME/CFS and The Cell Danger Response: How Adversity Triggers the Freeze Response and How the CDR Gets Stuck (Includes Surveys)

Veronique Mead, MD, MA · February 15, 2019 · 2 Comments

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 ...

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ME/CFS SURVEY looks at onset triggers such as infections, mold, trauma; adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) adverse babyhood experiences (ABEs) as risk factors for ME/CFS #chronicfatiguesyndrome #fms #POTS #lupus #autoimmune #asthma #diabetes Mead CITS

IIB. ME/CFS Surveys (The Cell Danger Response and Hibernation Series)

Veronique Mead, MD, MA · February 15, 2019 · 2 Comments

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 ...

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Essential Guide to Chronic Illness, Trauma and the Nervous System _ANS_parasympathetic_sympathetic_fight_flight_freeze_polyvagal_#autoimmune #chronicIllness #MS #ME/CFS #fibromyalgia #chronicfatigue #lupus #RA #RD #T1D #IBD CITS_Mead

Essential Guide to Chronic Illness, Trauma and The Nervous System: Keys to Quelling the Volcano

Veronique Mead, MD, MA · June 29, 2018 · 6 Comments

Having had a chronic illness for 20 years, it has sometimes felt like I've had a volcano inside of me -  out of my control, traumatic, and life-altering.But research explaining links between chronic illness, trauma and the nervous system has made sense of my illness. It has also helped me ...

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Serious life events increase risk for type 1 diabetes. A review of the research. Discovery Series #6 Chronic Illness Trauma Studies

#6 Trauma Triggers Type 1 Diabetes and Other Diseases (Buffers, ACEs, Delayed Onset after Trauma+)

Veronique Mead, MD, MA · December 15, 2017 · Leave a Comment

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 ...

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Stress, Trauma and Type 1 Diabetes: 5 reasons the links between adverse life events and risk for T1D are mistakenly dismissed #chronicillness #ME/CFS #MS #Parkinsons #ALS #disability

#5 Stress, Trauma and Type 1 Diabetes: 7 Reasons Doctors Dismiss Trauma as a Risk Factor for Disease

Veronique Mead, MD, MA · November 17, 2017 · 4 Comments

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 ...

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