Dr. Gabor Maté On How Trauma Fuels Disease | Rich Roll Podcast
Dr. Gabor Maté: “This culture is not one that supports healthy human growth.
And how social conditions, how inequality of stress, how genderism or racism actually has physiological impacts. They affect our biology. This is not speculation. Trauma has many implications. Trauma has been implicated in autoimmune disease, in cancer, in addictions, in every mental health condition in the book.
But the average medical student does not receive a single lecture on trauma, which is unbelievable, but it’s true. Biologically, medical students age faster than other people their age because of the stress they’re under. So, you got this traumatized population treating the larger traumatized population without any awareness of trauma.
We have certain emotional needs as human beings, that this society not only fails to meet, but actually tramples on very deliberately and very chronically. So, a lot of children get traumatized, not just by what happens to them, but what doesn’t happen to them that should have happened.”
