How Stress, Grief, & Trauma Secretly Destroy Your Health

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Dr. Josh Axe

Religion & Spirituality, Health & Fitness, Christianity

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🗓️ 6 October 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Most people think healing is about diet and supplements, but what if your deepest wounds are emotional? In this episode, I share my mom’s cancer journey and the powerful truth she discovered: unresolved grief, stress, and trauma can quietly sabotage your health. You’ll learn how hidden emotions disrupt the immune system and how faith, ancient wisdom, and modern science point to true healing from the inside out. Watch The Dr. Josh Axe Show every Monday & Thursday on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@drjoshaxe?sub_confirmation=1 🎧 Early Access! Our listeners enjoy every episode before anyone else! Tune in below and join our exclusive group of listeners → Spotify: https://bit.ly/DrJoshAxeSpotify Apple Podcast: https://apple.co/3JDvWcS Order my NEW BOOK, The Biblio Diet → https://bit.ly/4oPEP3t Watch my free training on how to naturally balance your blood sugar and reverse your symptoms → DrAxeDiabetesClass.com Discover practical steps you can take today to start healing your thyroid naturally → DrAxeThyroidClass.com If you’re ready to start feeling like yourself again and balance your hormones, take my free class → DrAxeHormoneClass.com Uncover what’s really going on in your body with advanced biomarker testing for hormones, thyroid, and metabolism— plus a 1-hour consultation with a Senior Health Advisor! → MyBloodWork.com Watch my recently shadowbanned episode with Dr. Joel Gator where we talk about a controversial topic that is more important now than ever → https://youtu.be/JI9Ycorq99I CONNECT WITH DR. JOSH AXE Instagram→ https://www.instagram.com/drjoshaxe/ Facebook → https://www.facebook.com/DrJoshAxe/ TikTok → https://www.tiktok.com/@thedrjoshaxeshow/ X → https://x.com/drjoshaxe/ LinkedIn → https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshaxe Website → http://thehealthinstitute.com Sign up for my newsletter → https://bit.ly/4oE9Jf3 Ask Dr. Axe → http://speakpipe.com/drjoshaxe DISCLAIMER This content is strictly the opinion of Dr. Josh Axe and is for informational and educational purposes only. It is not intended to provide medical advice or to take the place of medical advice or treatment from a personal physician. All viewers of this content are advised to consult their doctors or qualified health professionals regarding specific health questions. Neither Dr. Axe nor the publisher of this content takes responsibility for possible health consequences of any person or persons reading or following the information in this educational content. All viewers of this content, especially those taking prescription or over-the-counter medications, should consult their physicians before beginning any nutrition, supplement or lifestyle program. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Years ago, when my mom was diagnosed with cancer for the second time, she knew she had to change
0:05.6	her diet, take supplements and support her body physically, but there was something deeper
0:10.9	holding her back from healing, something no doctor had ever addressed.
0:15.6	She realized that she had spent her whole life as a people pleaser, carrying guilt and stress and emotional
0:22.7	wounds she'd never processed. And it wasn't until she began releasing those patterns, healing
0:29.1	from the inside out, that her body could truly fully heal and recover. And science now confirms what
0:34.8	my mom's story proves unresolved emotions like grief, anger, fear, and trauma can disrupt your immune system,
0:43.2	inflame your body, and even trigger disease.
0:45.7	Today, I'm going to show you how emotional wounds can turn into physical illness
0:49.9	and how ancient wisdom and biblical truth and cutting-edge research all point to the same path for healing.
0:58.7	Welcome to the Dr. Joshak show.
1:27.3	Music So modern science now confirms what ancient healing systems have known for centuries that our emotions can directly impact our physical body and overall health. And when you're stressed, here's the first thing that happens.
1:31.3	Your cortisol spikes, okay? That stress hormone and cortisol goes up.
1:35.3	What that does is it starts to also cause insulin to spike.
1:39.3	Now, when that happens, your immune system gets weaker.
1:42.3	Your digestive tract starts to inflame. Your hormones get
1:46.4	disrupted. And as I mentioned, insulin goes up so your blood sugar raises and that causes major
1:52.9	health issues for really everyone. And so I've seen this for for many years and practicing almost
1:59.4	20 years with patients that almost everybody
2:02.0	is conscious of knowing that poor diet is causing physical health issues lack of exercise
2:08.1	maybe toxins also impacting health and even genetics all those are contributors to your health
2:14.0	but a bigger contributor to your overall health, the thing that makes the
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