Ongoing studies link ‘Adverse Childhood Experiences’ to all manner of medical problems. We are all intuitively aware that childhood trauma has potentially disastrous consequences. Gathering and analyzing information that contributes to our understanding of specifically biological consequences is difficult. A significant collaborative effort coordinated by researchers at Kaiser Foundation Hospital and the Center for Disease Control is now bearing fruit. You might want to subscribe to the elist for reports of ongoing results or just visit the web site from time to time.
On reviewing this data it is important to understand that we are just beginning to glimpse these processes in a scientific manner. Most science brought to bear in these studies is ‘materialist’ physically-based science. Also at work as these processes unfold are ongoing quantum processes. We cannot yet specify how quantum processes affect these processes but best science suggests that mental processing may mediate the experience giving rise to predispositions to illness or health (see Chopra)
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