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Dr. Gabor Maté On How Trauma Fuels Disease

The Rich Roll Podcast

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Is There a Toxic Culture?

The subtitle of the book is "Trauma, illness and healing in a toxic culture" When we are studying microorganisms in a laboratory, we grow them in a broth. We call that a culture, a culture medium. And if the organisms in this culture medium were dying off in great numbers or not thriving or ill, we would call that a toxic culture. I'm saying that when in a society like ours, more and more people are getting sick, more addicted, more mentally ill, more people are cutting themselves,. That's also representative of a toxic Culture.

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