This content was created by Matthew Gillogly. This content was uploaded by Matthew Gillogly. This is a YouTube video titled "The Truth About Trauma and PTSD You Must Hear" (posted March 21, 2025). The excerpt is a spoken conversation between two participants: Speaker A (a trauma/health expert referencing Peter Levine and Gabor Maté) and Speaker B, who identifies himself as Matthew Gillogly. The discussion covers definitions of trauma ("stuck" or frozen emotion), nervous-system stress activation, epigenetics and how meditation/breathwork can alter gene expression, links between stress/trauma and autoimmune disease (particularly in women), and female physiology/athletic injury patterns. The clip also contains a brief promotional aside by Matthew Gillogly.
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My simplest definition is it's just like stuck emotion, motion that is frozen. We're not meant to be on all the time. First thing when we wake up, we're checking our iPhone, right?
Right.
We have too many activated stress patterns.
I think when people think of trauma, is it reserved just for people in the military or first responders or people that were beaten as a kid growing up? What do you really mean by trauma and PTSD?
So from a layman's definition, my simplest definition is it's just like stuck emotion, emotion that is frozen. And, and I even essentially got that from Peter Levine, one of the top trauma experts. And, and so if you look, we've all got some frozen emotion that is unprocessed. And the more you have stuck, like some people have a lot, right? And then it's like, You know, it's like in our our body. If we have a lot of constipation, we're gonna turn septic. Okay, we got we're supposed to process it out.
What do you docilax then for emotions?
No. Yeah, yeah. Well, but it often too, and even like Gabriel Monte and others, when they go through, they talk about the studies of like people with cancer. I think it's breast cancer where 76% of breast cancer patients are people pleasers. They have really processed. Yep. And so, there's emotion manifest in our body and there's a frequency. We know chemically it releases cortisol if you're in a stressed anxious state, but energetically, it also on the epigenetic side, it's turning on and off genes.
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Gabor Maté cites in his book, Myth of Normal, I think there's a study that they took 500 cancer patients and they had these cancer patients, and if I remember exactly correct, basically 90 days of meditation, breathwork, intentionally calming their nervous system, And on average, out of the 500, they found 136 genes per person were turned off.
136 genes were turned off.
Meaning, so if you think of how your body and your health system is responding to the environment, epigenetics is really the study. We are not genetically predetermined. Our environment tells our nervous system which genes to turn on.
Got it.
And so you can switch these things on and off, and I see it a lot of time in my autoimmune Probably 70% of my clients have an autoimmune disease.
Really?
Especially women. And women are about 3 times more likely to get an autoimmune disease.
Why? Why is that?
I don't know exactly why. I don't think anyone really knows. But it—
What's your guess?
My guess is they're emotionally more sensitive on average and emotionally more connected. And so if then, and you look at our Western world where we're in an extra stress state, our iPhones are always connected, we're always on, we don't get the natural downtime we were supposed to get. So, we'll literally be looking at our iPhone right before bed, right? And, you're looking at your text message, getting Instagram, et cetera. We're not meant to be on all the time. First thing when we wake up, we're checking our iPhone.
Right, right.
We have too many activated stress patterns. And, I think the female physiology is a little more— and you look at pro athletes, like female athlete get injured, there's more ACL, MCL.
Oh, yeah, yeah. My orthopedic surgeons could— I'll have one of them on and they'll talk about it. The numbers are staggering.
Yeah.
And the impact of like when they're, you know, the estrogen releases around their cycle period and everything. That's when they all—
Yeah.
Which, by the way, is a complete opposite in any— that's why I think this Williams sisters are the great 2 greatest athletes of all time because they've won so much.
