ACES TOO HIGH – Childhood Trauma can lead to lifelong illness

ACES TOO HIGH – Childhood Trauma can lead to lifelong illness

Ongoing adversity in childhood leads to a chronic state of “fight, flight or freeze.” Researchers at Yale had recently shown that when inflammatory stress hormones flood a child’s body and brain, they alter the genes that oversee our stress reactivity, re-setting the stress response to “high” for life.