Women's chronic stress and early trauma can trigger inflammation that manifests as autoimmune disease, especially as estrogen levels decline in midlife. Estrogen acts as a powerful anti-inflammatory, which is why autoimmune diagnoses spike in women during their 40s and 50s.
I think women very often don't feel safe in their own bodies. This is where I go on my emotional landscape. We are emotional absorbers of everyone else around us, and that actually wreaks havoc internally, increases inflammation. The body keeps score. If there's traumas that they've endured early in their life, the trauma can then reveal itself externally as autoimmune disease. It's all linked in how our bodies are responding internally, which sometimes we don't see externally, which is hard to capture. Estrogen is a potent anti-inflammatory, so it only makes sense that you start to see autoimmune diseases impacting women or the diagnosis of in their 40s and 50s?
Perimenopause Symptoms Can Start in Your Late 30s - Dr. Remina Panjwani | TUH 312
