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

Physiological Representation From Childhood Trauma

6 Aug 2025 · 1 min

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This YouTube conversation (excerpt) asserts that many adult physiological complaints—especially in women—have roots in childhood trauma. Speakers emphasize these body symptoms are real physiological representations of earlier trauma and are frequently misattributed to anxiety or dismissed by clinicians.

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All of these women who have all of these physiological issues that have their root in what you're identifying as childhood trauma, and that they're told that they're crazy, they're told they're anxious, they're told there's nothing wrong with them. But really there is. There is a physiological representation of the trauma and stress they had as a child.
And these are absolutely as real as any other symptoms that I take care of. Two thirds of my practice was garden variety gastroenterology. Those patients had real symptoms. So did my patients with neuroplastic symptoms or brain to body symptoms. Absolutely 100% real.