Chronic Illness Trauma Studies
How Adversity Shapes Health & Why It's Not In Your Head
The cell danger response (CDR) is a theory presented by UC San Diego professor Robert Naviaux, MD, PhD, that offers a new paradigm for understanding disease. Research studies are proving this view to be a game changer - and a paradigm shifter. This research includes risk for chronic fatigue ...
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 her memoir "Sonata" about living with rheumatoid arthritis, piano virtuoso Andrea Avery wonders whether being born cesarean or not being breastfed affected her risk of getting a debilitating, life-altering disease. Readers on Kelly Young's Rheumatoid Arthritis Warrior blog also share ...
Can stressful or traumatic events cause chronic disease? Today's post introduces studies linking stress, trauma and epigenetics in early life including during pregnancy, labor and birth. The research offers insights into how and why life experiences affect long-term health. It's not ...
Have you ever wished for evidence that life events affect our health because they influence brain plasticity and gene function, rather than because it's psychological? The links between brain plasticity and chronic illness are real. Millions of neurons grow in our nervous systems and elsewhere in ...
This post introduces insights from links between adverse life events, epigenetics and chronic illness. It describes how this new science suggests that chronic physical diseases and other health conditions thought to be permanent may be instead be much more reversible than we've thought (("Metabolic ...
