How Psychodelic Medicine Helps Healing Trauma in Profound Ways

Trauma induces changes in our bodies that are stored in our epigenetic code, which tells every cell in our body to increase or decrease expression of certain proteins. This can be trauma experienced by ourselves, our parents, or even our grandparents. These changes in gene expression patterns are likely an evolutionary coping mechanism to adapt to stress, but they are never processed or sorted out. When our environment becomes safe, we pass on these epigenetic changes to our offspring.