#268 - Dr. Sara Gottfried: The Autoimmune Cure, Talk Therapy Vs. Therapeutic Psychedelics, Inflammation, Depression & PTSD, Gaslighting Doctors, Oxytocin & Stress Reduction, The Role Of Trauma, Fight, Flight, Fawn, Freeze & Faint, And More!

The Melanie Avalon Biohacking Podcast

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Sara's background

Autoimmune disease and trauma history

Getting incorrectly diagnosed and gaslit by doctors

Studies done on men, assumed to apply to women

"Negative" test results below a threshold

How do autoimmune diseases manifest

The three legged stool theory

Spontaneous remission

Inflammation, depression and talk therapy

Psychedelics for PTSD

The Melanie Avalon Biohacking Podcast Episode #205 - Paul Austin

Difference between sex and gender in autoimmune expression

Trauma differences in men and women

Fight, flight, fawn, freeze, and faint

Oxytocin & Stress

Low dose Naltrexone

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