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[Revisit] Who Gets Sick and How to Prevent it, with Dr. Gabor Maté

Mayim Bialik's Breakdown

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The Importance of Sensitivity in Addiction

The brain develops the impact of the environment and the circuits in the brain that are prone for addiction get affected by early trauma. The idea of addiction being genetic, which is still the mantra, just scientific nonsense. What do people need to do? They need to commit to their healing. I'm much more reticent than actually engaging in it. So this is where we have to just actually make a commitment. There's all kinds of resources out there. And you don't need necessarily any fancy retreat, any big, cathartic experience. You can choose authenticity. If you don't know how to say no, our yeses don't mean anything at all. Who would you be if

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