Most of us have had some form of childhood trauma, either imaginary or real. The consequences can be profound. Specifically, our Hypothalamus-Pituitary-Adrenal axis may take a beating, leading to health problems throughout our body. But the main damage is between the ears, influencing our self-image and thus our relationships, including how we relate to food.
If you have been having trouble with an addiction to refined sugars, you may consider the above as part of the problem, beyond the alteration of our Microbiome (gut flora.) It is possible that your addiction is rooted on traumatic events in your childhood. This is one of the reasons why ancient sages from the inception of time have advised us to live in the present, forgive past offences and avoid worrying about imaginary future consequences. Home is the best place to start. If for no other good reason, let us try it this coming year for our own health and wellbeing.
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Effects of childhood trauma may be associated with mental illness, addiction in adulthood,
NPR (11/9, Blakemore) reports research published online Nov. 9 in JAMA Network Open “shows how the effects of childhood trauma persist and are linked to mental illness and addiction in adulthood.” For this reason, “researchers say…it might be more effective to approach trauma as a public health crisis than to limit treatment to individuals.” In arriving at this conclusion, researchers “drew on the experiences of participants from the Great Smoky Mountains Study, which followed 1,420 children from mostly rural parts of western North Carolina, over a period of 22 years.”
