Trauma and ACE

Trauma doesn't just live in memory. It lives in the body — in a nervous system that never got the signal that it was safe to stand down. You may have come to Dr. Deepti Sharma looking for answers about your weight, your energy, your hormones, or your metabolic health. But in Part 2 of this series, she's going to ask you to look a little further back. In this she picks up where the ACEs conversation left off and goes deeper into what trauma actually does to human physiology. From the way chronic stress hormones reshape the brain and gut, to the downstream effects on inflammation, metabolism, and chronic disease risk — this episode makes the invisible visible. Dr. Sharma explains how unresolved trauma can look like anxiety, emotional eating, fatigue, autoimmune flares, or a body that simply won't respond the way it "should" — and why none of that is a character flaw.She brings together neuroscience, the metabolic science, and the human experience into a single cohesive picture that is as clinically grounded as it is compassionate. Whether you're a patient trying to understand why your health feels so complicated, or a provider looking to deepen your trauma-informed lens, this episode gives you the framework to see it clearly.Because for many people, the missing piece isn't a lab value or a medication dose — it's an understanding of how their history shaped their biology.