Dr. Nadine Burke Harris
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So for some folks, they don't say anything to anybody else, but they get headaches.
They get neck pain and neck tension.
They have gastrointestinal challenges.
They get autoimmune disease because that stress response is activating over and over again.
And when it activates, it also activates our immune system.
Absolutely.
So as I was caring for patients and seeing that my patients who had experienced more stressors, more adversity, more difficulties at home, were also having increased risk of
asthma, autoimmune disease, behavioral challenges, learning disorders, right?
All these different things.
I started diving into the research and saying like, okay, well, I'm the doctor here.
So I got to figure out how to, you know, what do I do about this?
And so one of the seminal pieces of research is the Adverse Childhood Experiences Study.
It was published in 1998, right?
So now almost 30 years ago.
It was conducted by the CDC, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Kaiser Permanente.
And what they did was they asked 17,500 people, that's a lot of people, Mel, for a research study, about their history of 10 categories of adverse childhood experiences.
These included physical, emotional, or sexual abuse.
physical or emotional neglect, or growing up in a household where a parent had a mental health disorder, substance dependence, was incarcerated, where there was parental separation or divorce, or intimate partner violence.
So those were the 10 aces that they looked at.
And what they found was shocking, right?
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