Liz Moody

Did you need to say something specifically?

All of us, which means you saying the things, but also your parents hearing it.

What are they doing?

Okay, I wanna get into some of the science behind this because I have to confess, I was skeptical when I first heard this.

I was like, how could not speaking up as a kid or feeling like you had to be a good girl, how would that impact the way that your cells are behaving in your body?

How would that impact your immune system?

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