Research has uncovered trauma and traumatic experiences  are powerful forces that possess an ability to affect your health and rate of aging.  Trauma exposure is linked to a propensity for developing a wide range of conditions that can negatively impact health. Does your trauma history put you at risk for rapid cellular aging, changes in brain structure, higher rates of physical, mental, and cognitive decline?  Join host Brian Browne and co-host Lizzy Rasmussen on this episode as they discuss traumatic experiences and their effect on aging.

Timestamps:

1:15 What is trauma?

2:48 Physical trauma

6:31 Emotional trauma

7:54 Signs of trauma, healing from trauma, & resiliency

9:30 A landmark trauma study: The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) Study

13:38 Trauma & associated aging implications

14:18 Accelerated cellular aging & chronic conditions

15:55 Role of depression in abnormal aging

18:05 Trauma and health risk behaviors

20:29 Health risk behaviors as a coping mechanism for trauma

22:30 Trauma & physical health conditions

22:55 Assessing trauma & cognition in the clinic

25:22 ACEs-associated Alzheimer’s Disease risk

27:20 Physiological mechanism between trauma, decision making, & health outcomes

29:00 Role of HPA axis in traumatic experiences

29:46 Trauma as a root cause: how to recognize trauma & seek care

32:08 Epigenetics & intergenerational trauma

33:27 Importance of trauma awareness

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