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Today we're going to talk about emotional trauma because we were just, 'cause we were just conversing about the consistency that we see in emotional trauma on the intake forms that we get and the insanity of so much of it. It just blows me away as to what's going on out there today; as far as emotional trauma goes. And how it's connected to Hashimoto's, and I practice functional neurology as well as functional medicine. I think most of you probably know me as a functional medicine practitioner. But I was functional neurology before I became a functional medicine practitioner. And the whole world of functional neurology was built around, ultimately it's built about correcting imbalances in the brain and giving people... The functional neurologist were the first brain rehab guys and giving brain exercises and stuff. It was really built around chronic stress. It was really built around what a lot of people know about today, which is this chronic fight-flight mechanism. And it shuts down your gut and it shuts down your stomach and it causes you to have all, then it's off to the races of leaky gut and all that type of stuff. And how, how that can cause that. It's one of most common causes of constipation. If you have small intestine bacterial overgrowth and you have stress, it's screwing up your gut. Good luck in getting rid of it. So that's what functional neurology really was a lot about, it still is. But one step up on that is emotional trauma because emotional traumas, we're talking about physical trauma versus emotional trauma and physical traumas: "Okay, I got in a car accident and everything went south." Car accident is a trigger that trigger goes away. It's usually triggering something that's there, like you already have the genes to get MS. Or you already have the genes to get Hashimoto's or rheumatoid arthritis and in an injury like that can set off enough of an immune response, inflammatory response to set off an immune problem. For those of you who've had that happen. Emotional trauma is a little bit different. I mean, you can have an emotional trauma that is my husband was beating me up for five years. That was a physical trauma. But across the board, across the board, emotional traumas are... It's just stunning to me, the spectrum of types of situations that people can encounter in your younger lives and throughout life. That set off the fear center in their brain. And it's different than fight-flight. It's different than, "Ooh, there's danger here. "I gotta run away from this danger, "or stop and face the danger." And then that puts you into fight-flight. And then that sets off a certain amount of chemicals that causes your heart start pounding. And again it shuts down your stomach. It shuts down your intestines in such. Then your bladder, 'cause you don't need to be peeing or pooping while you're fighting or fleeing. And so that's how the nervous system is set up.

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