How Trauma Affects The Gut

The Dr. Hyman Show

Dr. Mark Hyman

Health & Fitness, Nutrition, Medicine

4.6 • 8.7K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2020

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

We all deal with trauma at some point in life, but the good news is we can address it and come out stronger using the right tools. Since trauma is kept in both the mind and body, it makes sense that modalities that tap into the mind-body connection are successful to produce long-lasting healing. In this mini-episode Dr. Hyman is joined by world-renowned expert in using mind-body medicine to heal depression, anxiety, and psychological trauma, Jim Gordon, to discuss how trauma affects the gut and why nutrition is part of his trauma-healing protocol to help the entire body heal.

Dr. Jim Gordon is the author of The Transformation: Discovering Wholeness and Healing After Trauma and is a Harvard educated psychiatrist and a world-renowned expert in using mind-body medicine to heal depression, anxiety, and psychological trauma. He has worked with traumatized children and families in Bosnia, Gaza, Haiti, post-9/11 New York, and Parkland, among many other areas across the world facing tragedy and trauma. Dr. Gordon also works with veterans and active-duty military to address PTSD.

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0:00.0	Coming up on this episode of the doctor's pharmacy.
0:02.6	When you're traumatized, it's not just the brain.
0:05.9	I mean, most of the research and most of the discussion
0:08.9	focuses on damage to the brain, which is real,
0:12.0	but it also damages our gut.
0:14.1	Hi, I'm Kea Peruit, one of the producers of the doctor's pharmacy podcast.
0:18.3	In this many episodes, Dr. Hyman sits down with world-renowned expert
0:22.0	in using mind-body medicine to heal depression, anxiety, and psychological trauma, Jim Gordon.
0:28.3	While conventional medicine relies on talk therapy and medication
0:31.5	to heal from traumatic experiences, Dr. Gordon shares why he also
0:35.3	incorporates nutrition as a part of his trauma-healing protocol.
0:38.9	Let's listen in.
0:39.9	But trauma is a Greek word, first of all, and it means injury.
0:43.6	Injury to the body, mind, or spirit.
0:46.6	And trauma's going to come to all of us.
0:49.9	If it doesn't come early in life, it's going to come in midlife with illnesses or divorce or
0:57.3	difficulties losing a job or issues with wondering who we are.
1:02.8	And if it doesn't come then, it's going to come if we're lucky enough to get older
1:07.3	as we grow older and become frail and deal with losses of people and deal with our own death.
1:12.7	That's traumatic.
1:13.8	So, literally, it's not only a psychological problem, it's a physiologic,
1:18.0	a biological problem.
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