Coming up on this episode of the doctor's pharmacy.

When you're traumatized, it's not just the brain.

I mean, most of the research and most of the discussion

focuses on damage to the brain, which is real,

but it also damages our gut.

Hi, I'm Kea Peruit, one of the producers of the doctor's pharmacy podcast.

In this many episodes, Dr. Hyman sits down with world-renowned expert

in using mind-body medicine to heal depression, anxiety, and psychological trauma, Jim Gordon.

While conventional medicine relies on talk therapy and medication

to heal from traumatic experiences, Dr. Gordon shares why he also

incorporates nutrition as a part of his trauma-healing protocol.

Let's listen in.

But trauma is a Greek word, first of all, and it means injury.

Injury to the body, mind, or spirit.

And trauma's going to come to all of us.

If it doesn't come early in life, it's going to come in midlife with illnesses or divorce or

difficulties losing a job or issues with wondering who we are.

And if it doesn't come then, it's going to come if we're lucky enough to get older

as we grow older and become frail and deal with losses of people and deal with our own death.

That's traumatic.

So, literally, it's not only a psychological problem, it's a physiologic,

a biological problem.

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