531: Is trauma the root of your health issue? | Sara Gottfried, M.D., integrative medicine doctor

Published: March 11, 2024, 9 a.m.

b'"In my practice, a significant number of people with autoimmune disease have a history of toxic stress and trauma," says Sara Gottfried, M.D.\\nSara, a Harvard- and MIT-trained integrative medicine doctor and four-time New York Times bestselling author, joins us to discuss the emotional triggers for autoimmune disease, plus: \\n- How traditional medicine falls short with autoimmune disease (~00:02)\\n- Subtle signs of an autoimmune issue (~02:25)\\n- How trauma impacts your health (~04:27)\\n- How to know if your health condition has emotional ties (~12:03)\\n- How to identify your body\\u2019s trigger points (~16:21)\\n- How stress impacts your inflammatory response (~19:07)\\n- How to correctly follow an elimination diet (~23:39)\\n- What Sara learned from psychedelic-assisted therapy (~27:12)\\n- Why you should know your sensitivity threshold (~30:37)\\n- MDMA versus ketamine-assisted therapy (~35:59)\\n- The future of psychedelics in medicine (~45:29)\\n- Why we shouldn\\u2019t put holistic medicine on a pedestal (~49:03)\\n- How to have nuance with lifestyle & pharmaceutical methods (~52:33)\\n- How to measure your ACE score & why it matters (~56:33) \\n\\nTake 25% off vitamin D3 potency+ with code D3POD. Cannot combine with gift cards or other discount codes. Apply code at checkout.\\n\\nReferenced in the episode:\\n- Sara\'s book, The Autoimmune Cure\\n- mbg Podcast episodes #486 and #340, with Sara\\xa0\\n- Kaiser Permanente ACE study\\n- NHANES survey on antinuclear antibodies\\n- mbg Podcast episode #125, with Jason Karp \\n- A 2021 study on MDMA & PTSD\\n- Sara\'s ACE questionnaire \\n\\nWe hope you enjoy this episode, and feel free to watch the full video on YouTube! Whether it\'s an article or podcast, we want to know what we can do to help here at mindbodygreen. Let us know at:\\xa0podcast@mindbodygreen.com.\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'