The Hidden Link: Trauma and Chronic Illness Revealed | Dr. Cathleen King DSH #911

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I used to take Tums and I actually realized it was just anxiety.

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Yeah.

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So flip for me. But yeah, I used to pound those, but I'll get this like stomach and chest tightness.

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Yeah.

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But it was just terrible anxiety. And a lot of that, I realize now, is from poor diet. Diet's super important.

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Yeah.

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But it was just terrible anxiety. And a lot of that, I realize now, is from poor diet. Diet's super important.

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Absolutely. It affects your brain. It affects your gut. Yeah, anxiety, that alarm can show up in so many ways in our body and eventually cause the immune system to be dysregulated, our ability to detoxify to be dysregulated. And slowly over time, there's just a system shutdown if it goes unchecked.

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Right. So I know you struggle with Lyme, mold, fatigue. So when did all that start happening?

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Yeah, I first started getting symptomatic around age 25. So 2003, many years ago, I was traveling. I got a gut infection. Yes, a lot of times these things start in the gut. And then I came back to the States and they're just like, yeah, let's give you that. And and, you know, the. stomach acid pill. I'm like, but I was just traveling. Maybe there was something to do with parasites.

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Yes, we are taught that we go to a doctor and this

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great power will give us this pill and it will solve it all and unfortunately when the nervous system is really involved it's just not going to work and you're going to need another pill and another pill and another protocol and another doctor and if you're like me I spent tens of thousands of dollars saw probably 30 plus practitioners and just went from thing to thing and they'd all come up with the latest diagnosis I had a diagnosis list as long as a sheet of paper and

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And still I was sick. And that's when I eventually had to give up on that route. I had lost all our money. We were bankrupt, basically, living off from, at the time, church welfare. And I couldn't afford to see the doctor. So I started using the skills I used to teach people as a physical therapist with chronic pain. I didn't have chronic pain.

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I had all sorts of other neurological symptoms from Lyme disease, but I started using these brain and body nervous system skills and it started to work. And I'm like, wait a minute. I was told this is a real infection. I have these real toxins and I have all these other conditions. Why is this brain and eye exercises and vagus nerve exercises?

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Yeah. So when I first learned, it was a science based on functional neurology, which are these eye exercises. Sometimes they're called eye yoga exercises. And they impact the way that your brain processes information. Your eyes are one of the most direct connections to your brain. And they also connect to the back of your neck, your upper cervical region.

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So I used to use them for people with upper cervical instability, chronic pain, and helping with brain processing of pain.

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Was your vision restored too?

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Yeah. Yep. Absolutely. And anxiety is really great for anxiety and all sorts of things. So yeah.

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I'm going to be contacting you because people are pushing LASIK, but that seems very invasive.

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Yeah. There's so much you can do. There's a lot of... There's even a lot of professional companies that work with athletes and they do all these eye training exercises. One company is called Z Health. They have a very affordable eye training program for people that are, it's marketed for athletes, but it's great for anxiety, health issues, vision issues.

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And of course we teach the eye exercises as well in Primal Trust.

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And if you get bit by a tick or exposed to a parasite or a virus, well, now your body doesn't know how to deal with it because your autonomic nervous system is locked from trauma. So, Kat, you need to go on a trauma healing pathway. It's not about the anxiety pill and it's not about the antacid. It's about your trauma.

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And I wish that someone would have explained this to me and explained the science to me back then because I didn't understand until, you know, about seven years ago.

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Absolutely. I definitely think there's a link to because I used to get sick every month before I addressed my trauma. And now I rarely knock on wood get sick. So yeah, once I addressed the trauma, I don't know if there's a direct correlation, but definitely didn't get sick as much.

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So yeah, absolutely. There's so many studies out there. The childhood ACEs study the it's called a childhood ACEs study by Kaiser Permanente in the late 90s. Are you familiar with that?

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No.