Aaron Hartman, MDFunctional Medicine Specialist | Clinical Researcher

The Hidden Power of Stress in Your Health Journey

24 Feb 2025 · 0 min

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Short excerpt from a conversational YouTube video in which Aaron Hartman, MD and another speaker discuss stress as a multifaceted factor in illness: it can be a root cause, a trigger, and a mediator that perpetuates disease. They emphasize that recognizing stress’s role and working with a clinician to apply therapies can be transformative in patients’ healing journeys.

Stress can be a root cause. It can be a triggering mechanism for illness, or it can be a thing we call a mediator, which is the thing that keeps you stuck in your illness, or it can be all of those. And with a lot of our patients, it is a big player in their health journey. And realizing that and then getting with someone that can help them walk through that and do different therapies can be a game changer for their healing process. Yeah, that's my take home on this. Do you have any important thoughts on that?
I agree with that 100%. I mean, I think it's also a result of this and then it becomes self perpetuating. So it's an antecedent, it's a trigger, it's a mediator. It's the result of and then goes right back to the front of the line and it just becomes.
Exactly.
Yeah, got to break the loop.