David Cooper

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27,292 appearances 249 recordings 1 series first heard Dec 2025 last heard 11 Apr

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The Last Show with David Cooper · The Later Life Health Effects of Childhood Trauma · 10 Apr 2026 podcast

So this is kind of wild that like having a particularly rough childhood can lead to health outcomes.

At the commercial break, I said my brother used to slug me in the shoulder a lot as a kid.

And now my shoulder aches as an adult.

That is not what we're talking about.

Things like extreme poverty, extreme trauma, things like this.

OK, now we're talking about me again.

Yeah.

I had a pretty, I don't know, lonely, sad, rough, like emotions wise childhood.

I didn't want for anything, but it really is the vast array of experiences.

In what way can we as adults experience health outcomes that are kind of negative if we had a childhood like that?

It can cause things like inflammation and long term inflammation can cause health problems.

Like these are the mechanisms I'm thinking of.

I'm sure there are others.

Okay, so can you give me like an example of maybe contrived of like some experiences someone has as a kid and then what it can do when you're an adult?

Not to mention coping.

Like if I have short bursts of stress as a kid, I learn how to cope with them.

And then when I have them as an adult, I'm well prepared.

If I'm just coddled and sheltered and everything's always good growing up, I get my first bit of adversity at my first job.

Yeah.

And who knows how I'm going to handle it.

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