Could Your Trauma Be Disrupting Your Metabolism? The Weight Health Conversation

➡️ Get the full show notes and episode breakdown at Biology of Trauma® Podcast - Is Your Body Still Running a Trauma Response? What if the anxiety that will not settle, the fatigue that sleep does not fix, and the chronic health conditions that appeared out of nowhere are not separate problems? What if they are the same pattern — the nervous system running a stored trauma response it was never able to complete? In this solo episode, Dr. Aimie Apigian walks through the biology of how trauma gets stored in the nervous system, why the event matters far less than what the body did with it, and what the body actually needs to begin to update. She covers the five physiological steps into a trauma response — from startle through shutdown — the four patterns stored trauma produces in daily life, what true resilience looks like in biological terms rather than the push-through performance most people were praised for as children, and the practical things that shift the biology: adrenaline discharge, magnesium, zinc, sleep, movement, and specific supplements that support what the nervous system is trying to do. In her study of somatic therapy participants, the group doing somatic exercises alone — before any supplementation — reduced depression by 30%. She also traces the origin of the ACE study — which began in Dr. Vincent Felitti's obesity clinic in San Diego when patients who were losing weight started dropping out, and shared that the overeating was not the problem. It was the solution. And what it was a solution to was the trauma the body had been holding long before the weight arrived. This episode is for anyone who has been managing symptoms for years and is ready to understand what the body has actually been holding — and what it needs. In This Episode You'll Learn: [00:00] Why do you keep struggling even when you have done so much to feel well? [03:28] What is the biological definition of trauma — and why does the event matter far less than the body's response? [05:09] How does the nervous system store a trauma response — and why does incomplete trauma physiology persist in the body? [09:53] What are the five physiological steps the body takes into a trauma response? [15:54] Why does carrying stored trauma cost so much energy? [17:54] What is the ACE study — where did it begin and what does it reveal about childhood and adult chronic illness? [26:00] What are the four patterns of stored trauma — and what is a survival strategy actually doing? [33:47] What is true resilience — and why does being praised for resilience sometimes mean the opposite? [40:37] What can you actually do about adrenaline — zinc, magnesium, movement, lentils, specific supplements? [45:29] What is the biological connection between stored trauma and disrupted sleep — and what drives it? Resources/Guides: Free Guide: Steps to Identify and Heal Trauma by Dr. Aimie Apigian A quiz-based guide to help you recognize the patterns of stored trauma in your life, your relationships, and your physical health. Book: The Biology of Trauma by Dr. Aimie Apigian — Chapter 1 covers the five physiological steps of the trauma response. Chapter 9 covers the four patterns of stored trauma. Chapter 12 covers the Biology of Trauma® framework and the essential sequence. Program: Foundational Journey®— A six-week online process working directly with the nervous system. Builds the biological foundation of safety that has to come first before anything else can hold. Related Podcast Episodes: Episode 69 — How Attachment Shapes Our Biology and Behavior Episode 135 — The Hidden Difference Between Stress and Trauma In How The Body Keeps Score Episode 146 — How Attachment Affects Us for Life: 6 Childhood Pains and How to Repair

➡️ Get the full show notes and episode breakdown at Biology of Trauma® Podcast - Why Menopause Is When Your Stored Trauma Finally Surfaces  What if the anxiety, the depression, the rage, and the emotional floods did not begin with perimenopause and have been there all along? And menopause is simply when the body can no longer hold them? What if your childhood ACE score is one of the strongest predictors of how severe your menopause experience will be? In this episode, Dr. Aimie talks with Dr. Betty Murray, hormone metabolism expert and functional medicine PhD, to connect two things medicine has kept separate for too long: stored trauma and hormonal health. Estrogen has receptors on every cell in the body except two. When it declines, every cell registers it — and for women carrying decades of chronic stress and stored trauma, that decline removes part of the biological buffer that was holding everything together. Dr. Aimie brings the trauma biology (as referenced in the ACE research, the PTSD and estrogen study) and the Biology of Trauma® framework that explains why menopause is the moment when what the body has been holding finally surfaces. Dr. Murray's hormone science confirms what that framework predicts: how a trauma-informed approach can actually help, why bioidentical hormones and the right labs matter, what the 10-million-woman study actually found, and how the Women's Health Initiative misrepresentation changed women's care for decades. This episode is for every woman who has been handed a prescription instead of a conversation about her hormones. In This Episode You'll Learn: [00:00] Why are hormones, buried emotions, and stored trauma connected — and why is menopause when it all surfaces? [04:45] What is the new lens for reading hormone labs — and why does dosing one-size-fits-all fail 75% of women? [08:00] What is actually happening biologically when a woman in perimenopause feels rage, anxiety, brain fog, and emotional sensitivity? [8:49] How do estrogen’s receptors on every cell in the body explain the scope of menopause symptoms? [10:51] What did a 6,000-woman PTSD study reveal about the relationship between estrogen levels and trauma symptom severity? [14:14] What labs should be tested, when should they be tested, and why does the phase of perimenopause change what you are looking for? [21:21] Is the depression diagnosed during menopause actually depression — or a hormone picture being handed an antidepressant? [22:36] How do adverse childhood experiences raise the risk for first-episode major depression during menopause? [27:35] What is the difference between bioidentical and synthetic hormones — and why does delivery mechanism matter? [31:44] What does the 10-million-women retrospective study actually show about hormone replacement and all-cause mortality? [36:41] What did the Women’s Health Initiative actually find — and how was a non-statistically significant finding turned into a 25% headline? [38:42] What does Dr. Betty Murray want every woman to know before she leaves this conversation? Resources/Guides: Dr. Betty Murray — Hormone metabolism expert and functional medicine clinician with over 20 years of experience in women's hormonal health, host of the Menopause Mastery podcast, and founder of The Menrva Project — an AI-powered telemedicine platform personalising menopause care across all 50 states. Free Guide: Steps to Identify and Heal Trauma by Dr. Aimie Apigian to help you understand what your body has been holding and how to begin working with it. The Biology of Trauma Book by Dr. Aimie Apigian — Where you can read Chapter 11 on how early life experiences become the preexisting filter through which every subsequent stress — including the hormonal shifts of menopause — is experienced. Foundational Journey — If this episode made you realize that stored trauma may be part of what you are experiencing in perimenopause, the Foundational Journey® is where we begin. A six-week online process working directly with the nervous system — building the biological foundation that has to come first   Related Podcast Episodes: Episode 69 — How Attachment Shapes Our Biology and Behavior Episode 135 — The Hidden Difference Between Stress and Trauma Episode 146 — How Attachment Affects Us for Life

➡️ Get the full show notes and episode breakdown at Biology of Trauma® Podcast - What Did Your First Year of Life Teach Your Body About Safety? What if the patterns you've called personality — the distrust, the hyper-independence, the certainty that your needs are too much — were never personality at all? What if they are the nervous system doing exactly what it learned to do before you had a single memory to show for it? Attachment trauma persists in the body as implicit survival programming — not as memory, but as an operating assumption the nervous system keeps running long after the original environment has changed. In this episode, Dr. Aimie Apigian traces the attachment and trust cycle — the precise biological sequence in the first year of life that either builds or disrupts the nervous system's capacity for safety and connection. When that cycle breaks down, the body adapts. Those adaptations don't feel like adaptations. They feel like identity. Using the Biology of Trauma® framework, Dr. Aimie unpacks why attachment trauma patterns feel like personality rather than learned survival strategies, how children lose themselves to preserve the bond — the attachment vs. authenticity tension — and what that costs the body decades later. She also addresses why adrenaline, not cortisol, is the real driver of the stress response, and what the biological link between early attachment trauma and adult chronic illness actually looks like in the nervous system. This episode is for anyone whose body has been holding patterns that predate any story they can tell about themselves. In This Episode You'll Learn: [00:00] What does it mean when your body learned danger before you had words? [02:00] What happens to a nervous system that doesn't get held enough — and what does a baby's body conclude about the world? [02:59] What does being born premature, adopted, or with a cord around your neck do to a nervous system that has no words yet? [06:18] What is the attachment and trust cycle — and is your first year of life still running your relationships today? [09:00] What does it do to a nervous system when needs are met with joy — versus met with burden? [13:49] What are the five steps the body takes into a trauma response — and how do you know which one you're in? [18:31] What is the attachment versus authenticity tension — and what does a child abandon to stay connected? [22:00] What does it look like when a nervous system loops between stress and overwhelm — and never actually feels safe? [25:45] How did Dr. Aimie recognize her own stored trauma — even when she didn't think she'd had any? [29:00] What is the difference between stress and trauma — physiologically, not just emotionally? [33:17] What does cortisol actually do in the stress response — and why is targeting cortisol the wrong place to start? [38:33] Where do you go from here — the Attachment Trauma Roadmap, the book, and what your nervous system needs next? Resources/Guides: Free Guide: Attachment Trauma Roadmap — Learn how your nervous system's early attachment experiences affect your sense of safety in relationships now, and where to begin. Book: The Biology of Trauma Book by Dr. Aimie Apigian — Chapter 9 covers the patterns of stored trauma; Chapter 11 explores how attachment becomes the lens through which we see the world. Related Podcast Episodes: Episode 69 — How Attachment Shapes Our Biology and Behavior Episode 59 — How to Parent Adopted Children with Early Life Trauma with Robin Karr-Morse Episode 135 — The Hidden Difference Between Stress and Trauma In How The Body Keeps Score

➡️ Get the full show notes and episode breakdown at Biology of Trauma® Podcast— What Does Overwhelm Have To Do With Chronic Pain? If you have chronic pain, you've probably been told that stress is making it worse. But here's what the biology actually shows: by the time your pain is flaring, you're past stress. You've crossed into overwhelm — and that changes everything about what your body can do. In this episode, Dr. Aimie Apigian — double board-certified physician and author of The Biology of Trauma®  — explains why chronic pain and chronic trauma follow the same biological pattern, and exactly how the body gets stuck in cycles that feel impossible to interrupt. Once the nervous system crosses the critical line of overwhelm, three survival strategies take over: dissociation, immobilization, and energy conservation. Healing goes offline. That's not a failure of your approach. That's a shift in operating mode — one where the body only has enough energy to survive. What determines whether a flare happens is neuroception — the nervous system's subconscious safety scan, running below conscious awareness at all times. When it reads threat, the physiology shifts. That shift is where chronic pain lives. What moves this pattern is building capacity through five specific nervous system skills — so the body spends more time below the line, where healing is actually possible. In This Episode You'll Learn: [00:00] Why chronic pain is an overwhelm problem — not a stress problem [01:34] How pain becomes chronic and why it follows the same biological pattern as trauma [03:06] Stress is not trauma and trauma is not stress [03:20] What the critical line of overwhelm is — and why the body stays braced long after the danger is gone [05:59] The Loop and what it does to the body's healing mechanisms [08:11] How adrenaline suppresses pain during stress — and what happens when it's removed in overwhelm [08:49] What microglia are and why they follow the same threshold pattern as the nervous system [09:30] The three survival strategies the body activates past the critical line — dissociation, freeze, and energy conservation [11:40] What neuroception is and why it controls whether a pain flare happens [13:42] Why capacity — not stress — determines where your critical line sits [15:10] The five nervous system skills that build capacity before the line is crossed - that every adult and every person with chronic pain needs to know — what each skill does and why it matters [17:44] Why we only go as fast as the slowest part of me feels safe to go [18:44] How to interrupt a chronic pain cycle before it crosses the line [20:52] The Three Rs framework — how to recognize, understand, and repair a chronic pain pattern [22:40] Key Takeaways And Guide Resources/Guides: Book: The Biology of Trauma®Book by Dr. Aimie Apigian— Chapter 1 covers the body's trauma response, the critical line of overwhelm, and the steps by which both trauma and pain become chronic. The Nervous System Journal is available at: biologyoftrauma.com/book Free Guide: A Guide For The Chronic Freeze Response — Learn what to do (and what to avoid) when your body gets stuck in freeze mode, including the survival strategies covered in this episode.

➡️ Get the full show notes and episode breakdown at Biology of Trauma® Podcast - Is the Need to Always Be “Good” a Trauma Response? What does your body do with guilt it can never undo?  Have you ever done everything right — and still felt something unresolved living in your body? Maybe it's not a dramatic story. Maybe it's just a moment you can't stop replaying. A decision you can't forgive yourself for. A version of you that acted against your own values — and your nervous system never got the memo that it's over. That's what this episode is about. Gregg Ward accidentally took someone's life at 18. For 46 years, it lived in his body — flushed skin, tense shoulders, a loop that no amount of success, service, or self-improvement could stop. In this conversation with Dr. Aimie, he shares what moral injury actually is, why the body keeps reliving a story with no ending, and how movement became his nervous system's path through what therapy alone couldn't reach. This is not a story about grief resolved. It's a story about grief metabolized. And the moment the burden finally lifted — not when the pain disappeared, but when the purpose stopped being about him. If something in you has never fully quieted — no matter how much work you've done — this conversation was made for you. Gregg Ward is the founder and Executive Director of the Center for Respectful Leadership. He is a global speaker, thought leader, and bestselling author. Gregg’s TEDx San Diego talk has been selected for TED Global publication. Resources/Guides: Centerforrespectfulleadership.org — Gregg Ward — Center for Respectful Leadership Confessions of An Accidental Killer — Gregg Ward — TEDx San Diego hyacinthfellowship.org —  Hyacinth Fellowship The Biology of Trauma®Book by Dr. Aimie Apigian — Where you can read Section 2 —  starting with chapter 6 which explains the mechanism by which the body keeps score, even of regret. Free Guide: Steps to Identify and Heal Trauma by Dr. Aimie Apigian Related Podcast Episodes: Episode 35: 5 Ways How Polyvagal Theory Helps With Trauma Work with Stephen Porges Episode 76: Polyvagal Theory: Become an Active Operator of Your Nervous System During Grief with Deb Dana Episode 114: The Science Behind Why We Can't 'Get Over' Loss And How to Grieve with Dr. Mary-Frances O'Connor Episode 124: Grief and Gut Health: Is It Just Emotional or Something More? Episode 126: Neuroception Explained: How Your Nervous System Decides What's Safe and Why It Matters for Healing Episode 127: Why Your Body Is Wired for Danger: Understanding Trauma's Impact on Your Nervous System Episode 135: The Hidden Difference Between Stress and Trauma In How The Body Keeps Score Episode 138: Why Your Body Holds On When Your Mind Has Healed with Dr. Aimie Apigian

➡️ Get the full episode breakdown at Biology of Trauma® Podcast – Episode 164: Could Your Trauma Be Disrupting Your Metabolism? The Weight Health Conversation What if the reason your body is holding onto weight has nothing to do with what you're eating — and everything to do with hormones you may not have heard about?  In this episode, Dr. Aimie talks with registered dietitian and author Ashley Koff to unpack the hidden world of weight health hormones: GLP-1, leptin, ghrelin, and more — and why optimizing them matters for everybody, not just people trying to lose weight. What you'll hear will change how you see your body — not as something failing you, but as a sophisticated ecosystem sending you signals worth decoding. Ashley reveals why 93% of Americans are metabolically dysregulated, how trauma and chronic stress directly suppress the hormones that regulate metabolism and body composition, and why "weight loss" as a goal is actually working against your biology. Whether you're curious about GLP-1 medications, perimenopause weight changes, or just why the scale never seems to match your effort — this conversation will shift everything. In This Episode You'll Learn:  (00:00): Introducing the connection - weight, metabolism and GLP-1 (02:04): The weight-trauma connection: Why the body holds on despite every effort (03:00):  What “weight health” means biologically — and why weight loss as a goal misses the point (05:59) The incretin discovery: How GLP-1, leptin, ghrelin, and seven other weight health hormones regulate your biology (09:50).Why 93% of Americans show signs of suboptimal metabolic health — and what that actually means for you (10:33) Ashley’s pizza framework: The right sequence for assessing your metabolic ecosystem (14:54) How to assess your weight health hormones — and why a blood test alone won’t tell you what you need to know (22:56) Perimenopause and menopause: Why digestion fails first — and how that drives belly fat and brain fog (30:14) Learned behaviors vs. hormone imbalance: How to tell what is biology and what is a survival strategy from childhood (37:29) Where to start: Ashley’s first step for anyone wanting to optimize weight health (40:41) The deliciousness signal: Why a “seven or above” is a physiologic mechanism, not a preference (44:05) Ashley’s final message — where to find (her book) Your Best Shot and her clinical resources Resources/Guides: Your Best Shot by Ashley Koff, RD: The Personalized System for Optimal   Weight Health — GLP-1 Shot or Not Ashley Koff’s website — For more on digestive, metabolic, and hormone health optimization The Biology of Trauma®  Book by Dr. Aimie Apigian — Where you can find the framework for finding your block in Chapter 12 Free Guide: Steps to Identify and Heal Trauma by Dr. Aimie Apigian Related Podcast Episodes: Episode 56 — Hormones: A Portal Into Our Stored Trauma with Dr. Aimie Apigian Episode 75 — Fear Stored in the Gut: Attachment, Relational Trauma & Solutions for the Hyper-Sensitive Gut Episode 82 — Using Biological Rhythms to Recover From Trauma with Dr. Leslie Korn Episode 138 — Why Your Body Holds On When Your Mind Has Healed Episode 151 — Why Healed Trauma Returns in Perimenopause: Chinese Medicine Lens with Dr. Lorne Brown

➡️ Get the full episode breakdown at Biology of Trauma® Podcast - Episode 163: Growing Up With Addiction Left a Trauma Your Body Still Carries What happens when a child has to become the adult in the family? Dr. Tian Dayton, clinical psychologist and author of Growing Up with Addiction, joins Dr. Aimie for one of the most personal conversations on the podcast. Both share their own childhood stories of reading the room, managing a parent’s emotions, and the unspoken rules that shaped their nervous systems for decades. This episode reveals how children in unpredictable families redirect their brain’s resources from play to survival, how addiction’s rhythms become the child’s operating manual, and why chronic survival physiology leads to digestive dysfunction in midlife. Whether addiction was part of your family or not, these dynamics may be running your body today. In This Episode You'll Learn: (00:00) What happens when a child has to become the emotional manager of the family (02:58) What chaos actually looks like in a family that appears organized on the surface (05:00) How a child’s brain shifts from play and curiosity to strategizing and operating (07:23) The different physiological states of a parent in addiction: sober, craving, and under the influence (10:22) Why addiction spills beyond substances into food, process addictions, and mood cycles (14:55) The connection between protein deficiency, neurotransmitter production, and craving cycles (22:16) How the insula processes conflicting emotions and body sensations during overwhelming moments (27:51) Why chronic survival physiology leads to digestive issues, bloating, and gut inflammation (29:33) The perimenopause tipping point: when the body stops adapting to decades of unresolved stress (52:17) The Al-Anon principle that changed everything: love the person, separate the disease Resources/Guides: Growing Up with Addiction by Dr. Tian Dayton — How Adult Children of Addicts Can Heal Family Trauma, C-PTSD, and Codependency Dr. Tian Dayton’s website — Relational Trauma Repair resources and training The Biology of Trauma by Dr. Aimie Apigian Songs of the Inner World — Dr. Aimie’s YouTube music channel Related Podcast Episodes: Episode 92: How Chaos of Early Childhood Trauma Affects Our Adult Nervous System with Dr. Tian Dayton Episode 146: How Attachment Affects Us For Life: 6 Childhood Pains and How to Repair

➡️ Get the full episode breakdown at Biology of Trauma® Podcast — Episode 162: Why Fixing Someone You Love Is Destroying Your Nervous System When someone you love is struggling with addiction, your nervous system absorbs what theirs numbs out. Relational trauma repair therapist Karen Moser joins Dr. Aimie Apigian to explain why the families of substance users often carry deeper nervous system dysregulation than the users themselves. This episode reveals the biological cost of trying to control another person's healing and what it takes to reclaim the parts of yourself that got lost along the way. In This Episode You'll Learn: (00:00) Why helping someone you love may be destroying your nervous system (02:00) What Relational Trauma Repair (RTR) is and how it works with the body (06:30) How Karen Moser brought Relational Trauma Repair (RTR) into addiction treatment and family work (08:00) Why the family's nervous system is often more dysregulated than the user's (11:00) Why sobriety alone does not resolve the family's nervous system patterns (15:00) Where relational trauma repair starts with families and self-relationship (19:00) How floor checks help name and locate emotions in the body (22:30) Why anger, shame, and even joy are emotions people learn to avoid (28:00) How childhood survival roles create adult role fatigue and burnout (38:00) A practical exercise to reconnect with the alive, strong parts of yourself Resources/Guides: The Biology of Trauma book — Get your copy here Songs of the Inner World — Dr. Aimie’s YouTube channel for real, raw, honest words for your inner world. Nervous System Journal — Download at biologyoftrauma.com/book. Track how often you are in a survival state. Related Podcast Episodes: Episode 136: How Chaos of Early Childhood Trauma Affects Our Adult Nervous System with Dr. Tian Dayton Episode 158: Marijuana, Addiction, and the Body: What We’ve Been Getting Wrong with Kevin Sabet

Grief, regret, loneliness, inflammation, pain. There are deeper layers than we are even aware of. Dana was a family physician who had managed gut issues for years. Constipation. Bloating. Acid reflux. She had every tool available to her. She rotated medications, over-the-counter laxatives, and antacids. She pushed through. Then one brave question changed everything. I asked her: what happened that should not have happened? Her posture collapsed. The tears came. And she made the connection — that was when my gut issues started. This is the biology behind what so many of us carry without knowing it. In the main episode this week, we explored how grief and gut health are connected. Now I’m taking you deeper into what’s actually happening in your body when grief goes unrecognized — and the three types of grief that are hardest to name. In this episode you’ll hear more about: 00:00 Grief, Regret & Going Gently: Setting the Tone 00:33 Check-In: Where Are You With Grief Right Now? 01:07 Prepare Your Support Tools (So You Don’t Go Into Overwhelm) 01:51 Dana’s Story: When “Managing Symptoms” Isn’t Healing 04:21 The Brave Question: “What Happened That Shouldn’t Have Happened?” 05:03 When the Body Connects the Dots: Stored Grief & the Gut 07:33 The 3 Hardest Types of Grief: Absent, Attachment & Heart Shock 09:01 Grief Isn’t Stress: A Whole-Body Trauma Response 10:00 Guided Body Awareness: Hand on Heart, Hand on Gut 12:44 Stomach Support Practice + Closing Message to Your Belly 13:21 Wrap-Up: Completing the Session Grief is more than an emotion. It is a whole-body response. It creates overwhelm in a way that stress does not. When grief is stored, the gut holds it. The posture holds it. The throat holds it. Dana didn’t just need to grieve what happened. She needed to grieve the silence, the years of self-blame, and the cost to her health she hadn’t seen. Most of us carry grief we haven’t named yet. Resources/Guides: Download the 3 Most Common Biochemical Imbalances Guide — The biochemical patterns that disrupt normal nervous system function and keep the body stuck in overwhelm. Biology of Trauma book — Dana’s story begins in Chapter 7 and continues in Chapter 9. Available everywhere books are sold. Get your copy → Watch the video version on YouTube → Check out the main episode — EP 161: Dopamine and Depression: The Metabolic Link You Need to Know Try this practice this week: Notice when your gut clenches, your posture collapses, or a lump forms in your throat. Before you push through, pause. Put one hand over your belly. Give it a message: “I see what you’ve been holding. We don’t have to go there today.” Presence interrupts the pattern of pushing through. Leave a review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube. It helps others find trauma-informed care.

➡️ Get the full episode breakdown at Biology of Trauma® Podcast -  Episode 161: Dopamine and Depression: The Metabolic Link You Need to KnowDopamine doesn't just create pleasure. It signals unexpected experiences and primes the brain to learn. New research reveals that depression, anxiety, and ADHD have different metabolic phenotypes. Understanding your unique metabolic footprint explains why standard treatments work for some and not others. Mental health and metabolic health are inseparable.In This Episode You'll Learn:[01:00] How does peripheral nerve stimulation affect dopamine in the brain?[06:30] Does dopamine actually make you feel good?[13:00] What is the real function of dopamine in learning and memory?[15:30] How does trauma change the way we perceive reality?[22:00] What are metabolic phenotypes in mental health conditions?[27:00] Why does the same diagnosis look different in different people?[33:00] How are metabolism, hormones, and mental health connected?[37:00] What role does the hypothalamus play in emotional and metabolic regulation?[44:00] Why do negative experiences affect us more than positive ones?[47:00] What does anchoring to something unchangeable mean for recovery?Resources/Guides:Learn more about Dr. Kyle Bills' ResearchThe NeuroNova Seat: Dopamine-releasing neuromodulation device.Year-long Biology of Trauma® immersion program with coursework on stress, grief, attachment, letting go, freeze, and neuroplasticity. Available for self-help individuals and practitioners seeking certification.Foundational Journey — Six weeks to clean up your internal environment so repair becomes possible. This is where we create the conditions for cellular healing. Prerequisite for the Year of Transformation program.The Biology of Trauma book — Get your copy hereRelated Podcast Episodes:Episode 5: How Genetics & Epigenetics Affect In-Utero Development (Part 1) with Dr. William Walsh Episode 6: The Role of Methylation & Epigenetics in Mental Health Outcomes (Part 2) with William Walsh