Childhood trauma leads to lifelong chronic illness — so why isn’t the medical community helping patients?

Researchers at Yale had recently shown that when inflammatory stress hormones flood a child’s body and brain, they alter the genes that oversee our stress reactivity, re-setting the stress response to “high” for life.

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