Ep 183: The Connection Between Chronic Illness & How Your Cells Respond to Trauma

In this episode Dr. Jannine Krause interviews Veronique Mead - a former family physician and assistant professor turned trauma therapist who now integrates the research showing how adverse life events effect risk for chronic illness: why it's not psychological - and what you can do about it. Veronique never realized that she’d experienced adversity until she left medical practice, retrained as a trauma therapist and discovered how adverse life experiences affect health. Learn the impact adverse life experiences have on your genes, the nervous system, the cell danger response & more.

What You’ll Learn In Today’s Episode:

• Why stress is different than trauma
• How your experiences effect your genetics
• How infections, accidents, psychological & emotional trauma are triggers for chronic illness
• The difference between fight, flight and freeze responses
• Why chronic fatigue is a manifestation of the freeze response 
• Why repetitively finding comfort is one way to send your body the message that it is safe