"In my practice, a significant number of people with autoimmune disease have a history of toxic stress and trauma," says Sara Gottfried, M.D.

Sara, a Harvard- and MIT-trained integrative medicine doctor and four-time New York Times bestselling author, joins us to discuss the emotional triggers for autoimmune disease, plus:

- How traditional medicine falls short with autoimmune disease (~00:02)

- Subtle signs of an autoimmune issue (~02:25)

- How trauma impacts your health (~04:27)

- How to know if your health condition has emotional ties (~12:03)

- How to identify your body’s trigger points (~16:21)

- How stress impacts your inflammatory response (~19:07)

- How to correctly follow an elimination diet (~23:39)

- What Sara learned from psychedelic-assisted therapy (~27:12)

- Why you should know your sensitivity threshold (~30:37)

- MDMA versus ketamine-assisted therapy (~35:59)

- The future of psychedelics in medicine (~45:29)

- Why we shouldn’t put holistic medicine on a pedestal (~49:03)

- How to have nuance with lifestyle & pharmaceutical methods (~52:33)

- How to measure your ACE score & why it matters (~56:33)

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Referenced in the episode:

- Sara's book, The Autoimmune Cure

- mbg Podcast episodes #486 and #340, with Sara 

- Kaiser Permanente ACE study

- NHANES survey on antinuclear antibodies

- mbg Podcast episode #125, with Jason Karp

- A 2021 study on MDMA & PTSD

- Sara's ACE questionnaire

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