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Gabor Maté

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The Myth of Normal Trauma, Illness and Healing in a Toxic Culture

A toxic culture can undermine people's health by two ways. It can do bad things to them that are hurtful, or deprive them of human needs for healthy development. This one does it both in terms of deprivation of needs and the way we gestate babies. Women develop autoimmune disease at much higher rates than men do. About 70 to 80 percent of autoimmune disease happens to women. So there's so many factors I know but medical practice is completely ignored. The Myth of Normal Trauma, Illness and Healing in a Toxic Culture taught me a hell of a lot.

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