Please take the time to watch this important sixteen minute TED Talk about
the HPA Axis and the Adverse Childhood Experiences Study. From the TED
Web site:
"Childhood trauma isn’t something you just get over as you grow up. Pediatrician Nadine Burke Harris explains that the repeated stress of abuse, neglect and parents struggling with mental health or substance abuse issues
has real, tangible effects on the development of the brain. This unfolds across a lifetime, to the point where those who’ve experienced high levels of trauma are at triple the risk for heart disease and lung cancer. An impassioned plea
for pediatric medicine to confront the prevention and treatment of trauma, head-on."
http://www.ted.com/talks/nadine_burke_harris_how_childhood_trauma_affects_health_across_a_lifetime
Nadine Burke Harris, a prominent American pediatrician, explains the destructive role the HPA Axis plays in repetitive stress response, linking her findings with the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) study, one of the largest investigations ever conducted to assess associations between childhood maltreatment and later-life health issues. The ACE is a collaboration between the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Kaiser Permanente's Health Appraisal Clinic in San Diego. For more information, or to access questionnaires used in the study, visit:
http://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/acestudy/inc
On this Web site, please see "Sound & the Body" for more information about Vibrational Sound Healing and mitigating the HPA Axis stress response.
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