Autoimmune Disease: Trauma, Triggers and the Path to Healing | Dr. Sara Gottfried

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Olivia Amitrano

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🗓️ 6 May 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Ep 114. Are you curious why autoimmune conditions are so prevalent these days? Do you have a history of trauma that you believe is connected to your autoimmunity? Sara Gottfried MD is a scientist, researcher and seeker who takes a whole-person approach to medicine. Sara goes way beyond supplements and nutrition to address the root causes of autoimmunity, helping us heal the trauma and other triggers that may have turned our bodies against us.

HERE’S THE JUICE:

Why autoimmunity is on the rise in today’s world
The specific lab markers to run if you suspect you may have an autoimmune condition
How loneliness and loss of community impacts our immune systems
The 3 root causes that she sees in ALL autoimmune conditions
The massive role that trauma plays in autoimmunity and how to start addressing it
How to properly and safely use elimination diets
What the conventional treatment to autoimmune disease looks like vs the functional approach
The importance of finding practitioners who have regulated nervous systems and are deeply present with you
Why psychedelic assisted therapy can help us get into a healing state of consciousness
3 things people can do starting TODAY to improve immunity and nervous system health
How to practice embodiment and feeling safe on your own

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0:00.0	Don't worry, you guys. I'm not back this week with another spiritual healer that's going to tell you to rub dirt in their face.
0:08.0	Instead, we have another sciencey episode for you all about the root causes of autoimmune disease.
0:15.9	But of course, there is a spiritual twist because we're going to talk a lot about trauma and the underlying
0:21.6	nervous system activation that can lead to immune overactivation. So of course we are going to
0:26.5	hit this in the most holistic sense possible. Today's guest is Dr. Sarah Gottfried. We've had her on
0:32.0	the podcast before to talk about PCOS. And today she is doing a deep dive with us on autoimmunity. She is one of the most
0:39.5	well-known, well-read, well-written functional MDs in the holistic health world. And she is going to
0:48.1	give us the full breakdown on why Western medicine is really failing us when it comes to identifying and treating autoimmune disease.
0:57.2	We're going to chat about why it can take seven to 14 years for autoimmune diseases to even show up on a lab panel and be detected.
1:06.1	And why we're failing people with autoimmunity during these crucial years where they can actually
1:11.6	take steps to remedy and reverse the root causes. What you can do if you're going down the road
1:18.1	of autoimmunity and of course what you can do if you're already there to actually address those
1:23.2	root causes. We're going to chat about why no matter what autoimmune disease you have,
1:28.1	those root causes are exactly the same, and there is something that you can do for each and
1:31.9	everyone, especially when it comes to your gut health. And we're going to really deep dive,
1:36.0	like I said, into this concept of trauma as a catalyst event for the cascade of immune dysregulation.
1:46.5	In Sarah's new book, she actually says, quote, autoimmunity may be the ultimate expression of trauma.
1:52.1	And we're going to talk about why this affects women at disproportionate rates compared to men.
1:57.2	Sarah's paradigm in terms of not only exploring but also truly addressing autoimmunity in the long term and how she believes you can heal is so refreshing and so needed in today's world.
2:11.6	And I hope that it is how all doctors of the future will see this very complex inflammatory disease
2:19.2	and will especially see the whole person behind it who is experiencing this disease, who has
2:25.0	a history of trauma and nervous system dysregulation and just needs to be witnessed and validated
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