Liz Moody

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.

And I don't think that you're saying this is your fault in any way.

And we'll get into that in a second.

But I just want to make this connection super clear for anybody listening.

Because again, it took me like a little bit of time to get my head around.

So you correct me if I'm wrong, Karen.

But I'm so curious about the microbiome because we know about the gut-brain connection.

And we already know that our microbiome in all parts of our bodies, all of our various microbiomes are impacting how we feel on a day-to-day basis.

So I'm like, is that being impacted?

Is that part of it?

We're not even... We don't know yet.

But...

From what we know, we have some pretty clear mechanisms at play.

You are given your DNA, you have your genes, but the environment that you're in throughout your life is turning on and off these genes.

So you might have had some sort of genetic predisposal to something like Hashimoto's, to something like melanoma or breast cancer, any of the other things that you've dealt with, but something in your environment turned those genes on epigenetically.