Wendie Trubow, MD, MBA, IFMCPPresident at Five Journeys, Functional Medicine & Wellness Provider, Best Selling Author, Passionate Champion for Health

Could Subtle Trauma Lead to Chronic Health Problem

11 Aug 2025

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This is a YouTube video titled "Could Subtle Trauma Lead to Chronic Health Problem" containing a discussion between two speakers about the impact of subtle childhood trauma on long-term adult health, recorded in August 2025. The conversation explores how even less obvious or perceived minor childhood experiences can have significant lasting effects.

You're talking about deep trauma. A lot of times it could be just a decision somebody made when they were young, when their parents didn't pay attention to them or they weren't maybe neglectful, not made necessarily trauma.
Yeah, that's right. Many of my patients say, you know, I didn't go through anything bad. Other people have been through worse. I don't think it was too terrible and I think I'm over it now. And sometimes the trauma was fairly subtle or the, the impact on the kid was fairly subtle. Pretty much anything that, that can make a child feel like a second rate human being is capable of having multiple long term impacts on the adult.