[deemster]

My wild guess aligns with Dr Gabor Mate. Dr. Mate emphasizes the significance of psychosocial factors, including stress, trauma, and emotional experiences, in the development and progression of various diseases, including autoimmune conditions. He suggests that chronic stress, adverse childhood experiences, and unresolved emotional issues can contribute to dysregulation of the immune system, potentially triggering or exacerbating autoimmune diseases.

According to Dr. Mate, unresolved emotional stress and trauma can disrupt the body's natural balance, leading to chronic inflammation and an overactive immune response. He emphasizes the importance of understanding the underlying emotional and psychological factors that may contribute to the development or worsening of autoimmune diseases.

[wing-_-nuts]

>Dr. Mate emphasizes the significance of psychosocial factors, including stress, trauma, and emotional experiences, in the development and progression of various diseases, including autoimmune conditions. He suggests that chronic stress, adverse childhood experiences, and unresolved emotional issues can contribute to dysregulation of the immune system, potentially triggering or exacerbating autoimmune diseases.

Yep, if you read books like 'the body keeps score' and 'the deepest well', the link between trauma and autoimmune diseases AND depression is remarkably high. I'm not saying every case of depression or autoimmune disease is linked to trauma, but wow, is it about as good of a risk factor as smoking is to lung cancer.

[haldujai]

I think Dr. Mate raises some interesting theories. Chronic stress is poorly understood and not well addressed in modern medicine (because it’s really hard to study and treat) but:

> is it about as good of a risk factor as smoking is to lung cancer

I wouldn’t go that far. Smoking has a well understood pathophysiology and extensive evidence as it relates to lung cancer.

[EMM_386]

> My wild guess aligns with Dr Gabor Mate. Dr. Mate emphasizes the significance of psychosocial factors, including stress, trauma, and emotional experiences, in the development and progression of various diseases, including autoimmune conditions.

Well I had what most would consider to be a perfect childhood and I got Graves Disease at 18 and had to have my thyroid gland fully removed.

So I guess you can count me out of this one.

[meindnoch]

Clearly a case of subconscious trauma.

[meindnoch]

Quackery.

Modern humans have extremely sheltereled lives compared to our ancestors. Yet, autoimmune diseases seem to be getting more common in modern societies.

[irdc]

> According to Dr. Mate, unresolved emotional stress and trauma can disrupt the body's natural balance

How does that differ from Germanic New Medicine? (see https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Ryke_Geerd_Hamer)

[panxyh]

Come on, really? It differs in that it can cause, not always is the cause.

There is no doubt that stress has physiological effects on body.

[fidotron]

This is a circular argument. If you have an undiagnosed auto immune condition the result of it will be things constantly occurring outside of your control and thus you will have chronic stress which probably will make things worse.

[monktastic1]

It would only be a circular argument if autoimmune conditions were the only way to become stressed. As it stands, this sounds more like a "vicious circle" (whereby one caught in this cycle has a hard time exiting it).

[2devnull]

Is there evidence that stress can occur and not lead to a vicious cycle of inflammation and autoimmune disease?

I am a big fan of Mate, but I think his ideas are oversold if not by him then by many he has “helped”.