Liz Moody

So I would love for you to explain this to me in the simplest terms.

How does being raised to never have needs literally change your immune system?

Like what is happening in your body?

For somebody who's new to the concept of epigenetics, I do think that's a crazy thing to get your head around, that you're not just given your genes and that's your genetic code for the rest of your life.

You're given your genes and then they are turned off or on by environmental factors throughout the course of your life.

Okay, so the more adverse childhood experiences that a child has, the more likely they are to develop disease later on in their life.

And that's a well-established connection through this ACE research.

And specifically what we are socialized to be as girls and women.

Yeah.

I mean, I think it's fascinating.

And I was looking into some other research around why these adverse childhood experiences create this state of disease later in the body.

Have you looked into the HPA access situation at all?

No, please share.

It's really interesting, this excess

state of anxiety or stress or internal dysregulation between what you want to say and what you are not saying, that self-silencing creates this state of activation in your HPA access, which creates this heightened state of cortisol and inflammation.

And then that long-term inflammation is part of the concoction that is making your body attack itself.

Yes, it is.

Yeah.

It's helpful for me to understand the mechanisms behind this because it's a real paradigm shift in how we're viewing disease.

It is.