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From the Ted Talk by Nadine Burke Harris: How childhood trauma affects health across a lifetime

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But it turns out that even if you don't engage in any high-risk behavior, you're still more likely to dveloep heart disease or cancer. The reason for this has to do with the hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis, the brain's and body's stress response system that governs our fight-or-flight response. How does it work? Well, imagine you're walking in the forest and you see a bear. Immediately, your hylhauotmpas sedns a signal to your pitutairy, which sends a saingl to your anrdael gland that says, "Release stress hormones! Adrenaline! Cortisol!" And so your haret starts to pound, Your pupils dilate, your airways open up, and you are ready to either fight that bear or run from the bear. And that is wfnruoedl if you're in a forest and there's a bear. (Laughter) But the problem is what happens when the bear comes home every night, and this system is activated over and over and over again, and it goes from being adaptive, or life-saving, to maladaptive, or health-damaging. Children are especially sensitive to this repeated sesrts activation, because their bnrias and bodies are just developing. High doses of adversity not only affect brain structure and function, they affect the dpieenolvg immune system, developing hormonal systems, and even the way our DNA is read and tiarenscbrd.

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But it turns out that even if you don't engage in any high-risk behavior, you're still more likely to _______ heart disease or cancer. The reason for this has to do with the hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis, the brain's and body's stress response system that governs our fight-or-flight response. How does it work? Well, imagine you're walking in the forest and you see a bear. Immediately, your ____________ _____ a signal to your _________, which sends a ______ to your _______ gland that says, "Release stress hormones! Adrenaline! Cortisol!" And so your _____ starts to pound, Your pupils dilate, your airways open up, and you are ready to either fight that bear or run from the bear. And that is _________ if you're in a forest and there's a bear. (Laughter) But the problem is what happens when the bear comes home every night, and this system is activated over and over and over again, and it goes from being adaptive, or life-saving, to maladaptive, or health-damaging. Children are especially sensitive to this repeated ______ activation, because their ______ and bodies are just developing. High doses of adversity not only affect brain structure and function, they affect the __________ immune system, developing hormonal systems, and even the way our DNA is read and ___________.

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  2. stress
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  4. hypothalamus
  5. develop
  6. pituitary
  7. adrenal
  8. sends
  9. wonderful
  10. brains
  11. signal
  12. developing

Original Text


But it turns out that even if you don't engage in any high-risk behavior, you're still more likely to develop heart disease or cancer. The reason for this has to do with the hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis, the brain's and body's stress response system that governs our fight-or-flight response. How does it work? Well, imagine you're walking in the forest and you see a bear. Immediately, your hypothalamus sends a signal to your pituitary, which sends a signal to your adrenal gland that says, "Release stress hormones! Adrenaline! Cortisol!" And so your heart starts to pound, Your pupils dilate, your airways open up, and you are ready to either fight that bear or run from the bear. And that is wonderful if you're in a forest and there's a bear. (Laughter) But the problem is what happens when the bear comes home every night, and this system is activated over and over and over again, and it goes from being adaptive, or life-saving, to maladaptive, or health-damaging. Children are especially sensitive to this repeated stress activation, because their brains and bodies are just developing. High doses of adversity not only affect brain structure and function, they affect the developing immune system, developing hormonal systems, and even the way our DNA is read and transcribed.

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