Ashok Gupta explains how childhood stress doubles the risk of chronic inflammatory illness later in life. The nervous system holds onto early trauma even when you don't remember it, keeping your body in survival mode and triggering fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, and sensitivities. These learned protective responses can be unlearned by teaching your brain and body safety.
Chronic stress during childhood has been shown to double your chances of getting a chronic inflammatory illness later in life, according to a study by Kaiser Permanente. And you may not remember the stress, you may have been too young to name the pain, but your nervous system remembers. This can contribute to conditions such as fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, mold, and so on. Because when the body lives in survival mode, And if it's for too long, it starts sending you signals in the form of symptoms, and the stress becomes physical. Now you might think, but that was years ago, I've moved on. And maybe you consciously have moved on, but unconsciously your body may still be stuck in that protection mode. And those symptoms you're feeling, they may not be random. They could be messages from a nervous system that never got to feel truly safe. But here's the good news. What was once learnt can be unlearnt. You can teach your brain and body that it's finally safe to let go. And once you do, those symptoms will start to ease.
