MUSINGS ON GRATITUDE It’s December, the solstice is here and we’re coming together to celebrate in many traditions. I’m thinking about our human capacity to appreciate. We turn toward things, individuals and communities that support our well-being and resilience (a basis of trauma resolution). A friend and I talked about Hanukkah’s festival of lights…
Animal and human studies show trauma is passed from mother to fetus. These early memories of trauma are implicit or non-conscious. We access them through the body memory of sensation in Somatic Experiencing. Other studies show that access the memory whether implicit or explicit is a slightly unstable event where learning and change in the nervous system…
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How Do Fruits and Veggies Love Us? Let Us Count the Ways By Christine Sadlowski Edited by David G. Fairchild, MD, MPH The oft-cited five servings per day of fruits and vegetables was the optimal amount for limiting overall and cardiovascular mortality, but not cancer mortality, in a BMJ meta-analysis. Culling data from 16 prospective,…
Stress Reveals Connections Between the Brain and the Blood Steven Dubovsky, MD reviewing Heidt T et al. Nat Med 2014 Jul. Chronic unpredictable stress has profound physiologic effects. It is well known that chronic stress, especially if it is unpredictable, promotes inflammation. To learn more, researchers conducted a series of experiments in mice and 29…