Dr. Gabor Maté: Who Gets Sick, and How to Prevent it
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Mayim Bialik
4.8 • 5.9K Ratings
🗓️ 1 November 2022
⏱️ 97 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Gabor Maté (addiction, stress, and childhood development speaker & bestselling author) joins us to explain which groups of people tend to be most prone to chronic illness, practical ways we can prevent these diagnoses, and the link between childhood trauma and mental & physical health conditions later on in life. He details health conditions you may not know have stress-related causes and explains why healthy attachment and meeting a child’s needs is even more important than we think. Dr. Maté identifies characteristics of those who are prone to chronic illness, reveals why autoimmune diseases predominantly affect women, and discusses the dangers of systematic denial of our emotions. He and Mayim consider the ways well-meaning loving parents can unintentionally create lower level trauma in their kids, how feelings of being unwanted can lead to workaholism, and the limitations of a traditional nuclear family. They discuss Dr. Maté’s time working at a supervised injection site, why most people in the prison system are highly traumatized, and why trauma goes hand-in-hand with addiction.
Dr. Gabor Maté's New Book, THE MYTH OF NORMAL: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/608273/the-myth-of-normal-by-gabor-mate-md-with-daniel-mate/
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| 0:00.0 | You're a sensitive and you're one of these really talented sensitive people who |
| 0:05.4 | generate so much in this world. You also talk with St.O. You see need everywhere and |
| 0:12.7 | you want to meet all those minds. I want to fix it. Yeah. And I believe I have the |
| 0:16.1 | power to do so is the ballacy. Yeah, but you have the power to make a difference. |
| 0:20.7 | You're not the part of fixing. |
| 0:23.7 | It's my B.O.L.X. breakdown. She's going to break it down for you because you know she knows |
| 0:30.5 | a thing or two. And now she's going to break down. So break down. She's going to break it |
| 0:36.6 | down. Hi, I'm my M.B.O.L.I. and welcome to my breakdowns. This is the place where we break |
| 0:40.7 | things down so that you don't have to. And we have an exceptional, exceptional guest today |
| 0:48.0 | who in my opinion has literally helped me break down pretty much everything that I've |
| 0:54.6 | ever experienced or ever will experience. Dr. Gabor Mate is a highly sought after. Dr. |
| 1:03.1 | and specialist. He's sought after for his expertise on a range of topics, including |
| 1:07.5 | addiction, stress and childhood development. First, I'd like to introduce you to the |
| 1:12.4 | person who's highly sought after for his expertise on just about everything else in my life, |
| 1:16.8 | Jonathan Cohen. Hello, Maim. You've been talking to me about Dr. Gabor Mate for years. |
| 1:23.7 | And I poo-pooed it. And I'm publicly apologizing to you for not listening harder, sooner and |
| 1:29.2 | better. This is a book that has significantly changed the way I'm viewing my current health |
| 1:34.9 | challenges and emotional challenges. And it's been an unbelievable journey to read this |
| 1:40.0 | book with you. And the fact that we get to have this man here is, it's really unbelievable. |
| 1:46.3 | And thank you. Well, keep that on repeat. He also breaks down the causes in our overall |
| 1:51.9 | society that make us really not understand our sense. I consider this the theory of everything. |
| 1:57.1 | No, that's a good title. The physics theory of everything. I think the myth of normal, |
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