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Gabor Maté

Happy Place

CHAPTER

I'm Arguing That These Are Structural Problems

I was very shocked to read the direct correlations between certain illnesses and circumstances. For instance, if you look at racism, a huge proportion of people that have dealt with that end up with asthma. The rate of rheumatoid arthritis amongst the indigenous women is six times down of anybody else in Canada. And again, a Canadian study, men who have been sexually abused and sheltered,. have tripled the rate of heart attacks as adults. Women with severe PTSD symptoms have doubled the risk of ovarian cancer. This is a structural problem. It's a societal, we've got to dismantle it, which is... I'm arguing that these are structural problems.

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