How Stress, Grief, & Trauma Secretly Destroy Your Health

23:08You're looking at these thyroid hormones. You're looking at the diagnosis of Hashimoto's. You're focused in on that. What German New Medicine says is don't focus on those things. What you should be focusing on is your life story and emotional triggers. Okay. How's your relationship with your mom? What are the biggest things from your past that still bother you today? What triggers you emotionally? Write those things down. Now go and focus on healing those areas. And when you heal those areas emotionally, your lab results, those will get better. So you don't focus on the lab results. That's not going to help you heal.

23:42You focus on healing the emotional trauma. I mean, I think about this like doing a micronutrient test. You know, I do micronutrient tests with patients and basically looking what are all the nutrients they're deficient in. Okay, we got vitamin C here. Let's go and address that. Let's get more. Let's have you eat more grapefruit and kiwis and broccoli, right? These vitamin C rich foods. Let's do some of that in order to boost your immune system. Right. So you want to be able to know what that issue is. So improving your diet, that's a big part of it. But the other big part is we've been talking about is addressing that emotional trauma.

24:15Josh Axe:Now, I want to cover, according to German New Medicine, some of the biggest triggers that cause people to be sick. Here's a few. One, receiving news that was difficult to take in, digest or comprehend. You know, I had this happen about a year and a half ago when my father-in-law passed away. I mean, when I was told over the phone that he went on a one-day trip, I'd seen him the day before. I was hanging out with him every day. And I was told that over the phone. I remember it was sort of, you know, almost hard. It was hard for me to accept, right? And that was an example of that for me personally.

24:50So what is that for you? Was there something that happened where you got a piece of news that was difficult to digest or even comprehend? Here's another one, a loss or separation. This could be a divorce. It could be a death. It could be a child moving away from home. It could be any of those things. A job loss, income loss. So those are examples too. A personal

25:16Josh Axe:attack, such as an offending remark or physical abuse. A life-threatening situation like an accident or medical emergency. Again, somebody saying something, again, going back to a personal attack, somebody said, you're not smart enough. You're not pretty enough. You're fat. Somebody saying something harmful to you, and even if they didn't say it directly, they made you feel that way, right? These are all things that hurt us. And if we don't go back to that memory and remember it and let it go and allow God to heal our hearts, it will continue to build disease in our body. And here's an example of how this works, according to one study.

26:00Josh Axe:People living with an autoimmune disease are nearly twice as likely to suffer from a mood problem like depression, anxiety, or bipolar. The risk of mood disorders is 87 % to 97 % higher in people suffering from rheumatoid arthritis, inflammatory bowel disease, lupus, multiple sclerosis, psoriasis, and Graves disease. Okay. So if you have a mood disorder, and here's how it happens a lot of times. Somebody said something negative to you about you. Okay. It could be that, hey, you know, you're not working hard enough or, gosh, you're so dumb. Why did you do that? And then here's what happens. That gives you a level of depression.

26:40Now, here's the other thing that happens, and it's believed in autoimmune disease. Autoimmune disease is where your body starts attacking itself. Okay. Okay, so Hashimoto's thyroiditis is where your body is attacking its own thyroid tissue. Maybe it's recognizing it being similar to gluten. Okay, but that's sort of happening. Your body's attacking itself. So, but emotionally what happens with people with autoimmune disease is they're emotionally attacking themselves. And that's what's causing their body to then physically attack itself. So if you ever do anything like this to yourself, you say, why did you do that?

27:10Josh Axe:That was so dumb. I shouldn't have said that. Have you ever done anything like that where you're very hard on yourself? And oftentimes this stems from your parents were very hard on you. Your parents were critical. I have somebody, one of my close friend of mine, and his mom was incredibly overcritical and judgmental of him. I mean, everything he did, she critiqued. And he was always wanting her approval. So now he's constantly hard on himself and beating himself up. And then he also developed psoriasis, an autoimmune disorder. Okay. So this happens in a lot of people when we look at why did you develop this specific disease?

27:45It's rarely genetic. Typically, it's emotional. Now, I want to walk you through what German New Medicine says in terms of how to physically heal from this trauma. And I've hit on some of it, but I want to walk you through the whole process. Number one, reflect on the emotional shock that occurred before your symptoms started. Okay? So what was that thing that you believe really kicked off that past trauma that still bothers you today? Journal and pray about it and experience the process again. So I want you to sort of visualize and pray through and say, God, bring this to me. What is this thing that's bothering me today?

28:18Write it down and journal all about it, okay? And then seek reconciliation or release of that conflict through therapy or spiritual healing, okay? Seek reconciliation. Forgive, let go, release, see yourself as the hero in the story, the overcomer. Write down, how could that be used for your good? How could God use that for good?

28:40Josh Axe:Write those things down. There's also inner child work therapy or prayer to help resolve stored emotional trauma. And removing fear around your diagnosis, which helps stop the ongoing stress response. All these are important parts of that healing process. So again, what German New Medicine does is it says every disease condition, for the most part, there is an emotional component. Now, listen, there are a few diseases out there here and there where let's say you were drinking lead or asbestos. asbestos or we're in a major car accident, right? These are traumas that may not have as much of an emotional component, but 80 % plus the majority of our chronic conditions like cancer and autoimmune disease and hormone imbalances, the greatest tie to those according to German New Medicine is our emotional state and things like childhood trauma.

29:32So going and healing those is so important. Listen, this is something you shouldn't skip. It's something you should go after. And I get the best results with patients when we go after both, when we focus on that physical healing with diet and lifestyle and supplementation and all those issues. And we focus on building and fostering this healthy mindset and emotions at the same time. So you really want to do both simultaneously. I also want to mention once you feel like you've been able to address and identify that past trauma. Okay. So it's like detoxification, right? We want to detox and eliminate

30:08Josh Axe:that painful trauma, painful emotions, bad sort of mind patterns. And then we also want to support our emotions by living the way God designed us to live. And there are four emotions I want to talk about before I get into the Chinese medicine and the biblical mindset with this on how to heal your emotions. So hormonally, you want to focus on supporting four hormones in your body, oxytocin, dopamine, endorphins, and serotonin. Now, oxytocin today, I believe, is the hormone we are most deficient in in terms of supporting. It's known as the love hormone or the connection hormone. You're going to get oxytocin.

30:46Actually, it's released in the highest levels when a mom is breastfeeding a newborn child. In fact, I've heard my wife and my sister were talking about this recently, where they were talking about sort of this euphoric state, just this deep connection they feel when breastfeeding and nursing. So it's there. The other time you're feeling the most is during sexual intercourse. OK, so there's a sort of hormones being released of oxytocin where you're feeling deeply emotionally connected to the other person.

31:15Josh Axe:Also, socializing, physical touch. So it's deep, intimate conversations with people where you feel like you're really connecting. It's hugging. It's high fiving. It's petting and hugging your animals, helping and serving others as well. this is where you're going to get the greatest levels of oxytocin release. And these are all things we're greatly deficient in, especially coming out of COVID and a lot of the other things politically where it's like you can't, you know, like hugging coworkers. And I mean, I know, you know, in my clinical practice, we encourage hugging. I used to have one of my staff members and she was like the chief hug officer.

31:52I was walking around because I knew that hugging and encouragement and putting your hand on someone's shoulder, looking them in the eyes and connecting with them deeply and giving them a word of encouragement is so important to healing and health. So oxytocin, this hormone about healthy, quality physical touch and connecting with others relationally is the biggest hormone we want to start supporting in order to heal our hearts and our emotions. The other one is dopamine. Now, unfortunately, today via social media, especially like Instagram and Facebook and TikTok is the worst of them on this, but this sort of scrolling, doom scrolling constantly.

32:31Dopamine is connected to the reward channels in your brain. It's your reward chemical. If you ever see a slot machine, somebody sitting in a slot machine, it's basically achieving a goal, okay? And so for you, when you like something or someone likes what you do, that's sort of like, oh, there's a mini goal there.

32:47Josh Axe:You also get more dopamine when you eat certain types of food, like things that are very sugary. Completing a task, like checking a task off your list, that's dopamine. and then sometimes certain self-care activities. So listen, dopamine is a good hormone, but a lot of us are getting too much dopamine from in an unhealthy way and not enough oxytocin, okay? Because dopamine is more connected to, listen, oxytocin tends to be where you're connecting with people. Dopamine is where you're connecting with a thing or a task, okay? We need more oxytocin. Number three hormone, you need to start healing your health and your emotions in your full body is endorphins.

33:26These are natural painkillers. This is tied to movement,

33:31Josh Axe:especially exercise, listening to music you love, watching a positive movie and laughter. Endorphins are released. This is where you get this runner's high, that feeling where if you're just laughing and you feel that overwhelming sense of emotion, endorphins. It's really movement and having fun. That's how you're going to have those. Then serotonin. These are known as the mood stabilizers. This is where a lot of people take antidepressants or SSRIs, right? These serotonin drugs that people take. These are the mood stabilizers. Your greatest way to get serotonin is sunshine. So the more sun you get, the more serotonin you get.

34:09Josh Axe:Mindfulness. So spending time in prayer, meditation, reading a spiritual growth book, attending a Bible study, but just going deep spiritually, that boosts serotonin. Being with nature, so just hiking and walking, being the mountain snow skiing on the water that helps boost serotonin as well so those are the biggest serotonin boosters that you can have but most of us again too much dopamine not enough oxytocin serotonin endorphins and you can do it by connecting with people connecting with nature and through having fun so here's what chinese medicine believes is that different emotions impact and cause disease in different organ systems very similar a little bit different but similar to German new medicine.

34:52Josh Axe:And so Chinese medicine looks at five different organ systems of the body, and it knows that different emotions impact different organ systems, both for the positive or the negative. And the first thing I reference in Chinese medicine is focusing on healing the body emotionally and practically. So if somebody is dealing with, here's an example. If somebody is dealing with major digestive distress, the practitioner is going to say, hey, are you dealing with some emotional distress? Is it worry? What are you worried about? And the person say, well, I realized I'm worried about my kids. I'm worried about my work.

35:26I'm worried about this. And they'll say, okay, well, that's causing digestive issues. And they're bringing an awareness there to the worry. Now, a lot of Chinese medicine practitioners may not go beyond that in giving recommendations, but some do. There's a Chinese medicine practitioner and acupuncturist that I work with. And he does recommend in his practice things you can start to go to do to heal from worry and get over worry. And for him, he's Jewish. And so he recommends going to the Bible and meditating on certain Bible verses like Joshua 1.9, where God says, be strong and courageous. Don't worry.

36:01I'll be with you wherever you go. So there's some advice there in that. But overall, again, it's very practical in terms of being aware of the emotion in your experience and start to create healthy lifestyle habits and practices to deal with that emotion. Now, the next thing in Chinese medicine that's typically used for healing your body even emotionally is acupuncture. This involves inserting a very thin needle into a meridian point, which different areas of the body are connected to different organs. And that allows blood flow and energy and oxygen to flow to that area. And that can sometimes help people more quickly resolve their grief, anger, and anxiety is the way that works.

36:43Herbal medicine is often used in Chinese medicine as well. So if somebody has a digestive issue, like we talked about, they might recommend you drinking ginger herbal tea daily or taking an herb like astragalus or adding more cardamom to your food and fennel, and that's going to help the digestive tract. And so they're going to recommend that as well. And then they're going to recommend dietary therapy. So not just herbals and herbal teas, but also foods. And so it might be, again, doing more root vegetables like sweet potatoes and pumpkin and butternut squash in order

37:14Josh Axe:to ground and help heal the digestive system. And then they also recommend a lot of breathing, energy movement, being outside barefoot with something called Qigong. Today, we call it things like box breathing, but they created a system for breathing in order to move oxygen throughout your body and help your body release emotions that were stuck. And so Chinese medicine had really an incredible five-part system there for helping people heal from chronic disease. And so they took on the emotions, not only from the emotional standpoint, as in German New Medicine, but helped try and focus on addressing and be conscious of the emotion, fostering positive emotions to combat it, and then other therapies as well in order to heal.

37:55Now, there is a 2019 meta-analysis in the Journal of Clinical Medicine, and I found that acupuncture significantly reduced depression symptoms, likely through vagus nerve stimulation, reduced cortisol levels, and anti-inflammatory effects, and releasing neurotransmitters like serotonin and noradrenaline. adrenaline. And so we see that Chinese medicine acupuncture is helpful against this. And there's also studies showing that Qigong, this type of breathing supports relaxation and improves symptoms related to depression, anxiety, addiction, and PTSD. And so when it comes to Chinese medicine, this is a practice that again is looking at the whole body and helping it heal from an emotional standpoint.

38:39I will say that there are other techniques that maybe typically go deeper into the root cause of the emotion and helping heal that specifically. But overall, as a practice, it is something that is very aware, that does help bring awareness and as a whole can help heal people dealing with emotional, mental, and spiritual issues. Now, finally, I want to go through biblical medicine, and this is healing through faith, forgiveness, and community. And I want to say what German New Medicine does really well is it helps address those childhood traumas. It brings them to the surface. I think that's so important.

39:13Chinese medicine does such a great job with sort of the specific lifestyle practices. But what the Bible does better than both is it says, okay, Jesus is your healer. Okay. The Bible is good medicine, and it has great practical advice on healing your body physically, mentally, and spiritually. And I think it's important. One of the things that happens a lot of times in these sort of Eastern modern medicines and practices, it does a good job of emptying yourself, but not always a good job of helping you fill yourself with the greatest thing, and that's the Spirit of God, and focusing on hope and love and joy, and so filling your cup with those things.

39:55Josh Axe:And the Bible does that better than anything. You know, biblical medicine is rooted in the idea that spiritual health is the foundation, the greatest foundation for your physical health. And the Bible speaks of healing through faith, prayer, community, gratitude, and the renewing of our minds. You know, Proverbs 17, 22 says this, a cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones. Think of that. A cheerful heart. What is a cheerful heart? Praising, gratitude, thankfulness, right? A cheerful heart, being cheerful and grateful and joyful. It's good medicine, right? It's good medicine.

40:36And so the Bible shares some of these things we need to do in order to start to heal our emotions. And I would say that these are more powerful than any other form of medicine when it comes to biblical medicine and meditating on the word of God and asking Jesus to physically heal you. Here's how it works.

40:53Josh Axe:So many of us today live with sin, bitterness, shame, guilt, unforgiveness, and unhealed wounds. and these are and they have spiritual roots that take up place and start to breed physical illness in our bodies and healing comes through confession prayer faith communion and surrender to god's will the bible teaches us that faith can restore your health you know mark 5 34 says your faith has made you well there's a woman there who is bleeding for many many years and she simply touches Jesus and she's healed. And Jesus said to her, your faith has made you well. Jesus says this constantly throughout the Bible when you read the New Testament.

41:39Josh Axe:He says, it's your faith that has made you well. Faith in what? Faith in Jesus. Faith that he can heal you, that perfect person that died for you, that loves you unconditionally. Faith in him that he loves you, that he cares for you, that he can heal you. That faith will heal you. So it's belief in God's healing power that has been shown to reduce stress hormones and improve outcomes, even in scientific studies today. And prayer and worship create neurochemical shifts that also calm your nervous system. So I do think there's some things that happen, we know, via a placebo effect, a scientific effect of what happens when you believe and have faith.

42:20But I believe there's something supernatural

42:22Josh Axe:that happens there as well. You can take back control of your metabolism, your energy, and your hormones naturally. I've put together an in-depth practical training to help you balance your hormones using powerful foods, herbs, and natural lifestyle strategies that actually work. If you're ready to start feeling like yourself again, go to draxhormoneclass.com or click the link in the description to begin your healing journey today. That's draxhormoneclass.com to take back your health naturally. You know, one of the areas of healing, and I would call it sort of a spiritual detoxification that the Bible talks about is forgiveness and confession.

43:09Josh Axe:You know, Ephesians 4, 26 through 27 says this, In your anger, do not sin. Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry, and do not give the devil a foothold. I mean, he's saying it's so important here that if you're living in anger and any sort of bad sort of any sort of negative emotion or vice, do not let the sun go down while you're still angry. OK, don't even let the sun go down. Go and go and resolve it right now. What most people do is we don't confess and we just take whatever we have. We shove it under the rug. And not only do we let the sun go down, we let the sun go down for 10, 20, 30 years and live with these unhealthy emotions over and over and over again.

43:56Josh Axe:The Bible is clear and urgent in its call to resolve this now. Matthew 6, 14 through 15 says, For if you forgive other people when they sin against you, your heavenly father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive others their sins, your father will not forgive your sins. You know, unforgiveness is one of the most damaging things to our health. In fact, in Chinese medicine, even, they believe that forgiveness is tied to two things. It's a sort of anger and resentment and bitterness towards another person to something they did, not even currently, but in the past. So that's going to affect your liver and your immune system.

44:36And it's probably the greatest driver of cancer emotionally is unforgiveness, according to that form of medicine. Now, again, the Bible is clear and it talks about forgiveness constantly throughout the Bible and other emotional burdens like guilt and shame and bitterness and how they affect our health. And in the New Testament, I believe in James, it says, you know, go and confess your sins unto the Lord and also confess them sometimes to elders and to other people you can trust.

45:05Josh Axe:Right. So we're called to confess. We're called to forgive. If you hold on to sins without confession, without forgiveness, it builds disease in your body. And studies show that forgiveness reduces cortisol, inflammation, and even proves your immune system marker. So there are studies showing the healing power of forgiveness. And so I'd encourage you, think about, and one thing you might do is just take time and write down, who do I need to forgive? Maybe it's yourself even, maybe it's God, but who do you need to forgive? Not that God needs forgiveness, but sometimes we blame God for things that he didn't do, and so just recognizing that.

45:44So who do you need to forgive? What do you need to confess? What are the things you've been doing done wrong? and what are some of the vices and just negative maybe mindsets you've been carrying as well? Write those things down and then confess those to the Lord. Spend some time and confess and then repentance of saying, God, I'm so sorry that I've done these things wrong. Help heal my heart. This is what the Bible teaches us to do.

46:11Josh Axe:And then once you do this spiritual detox and you confess and you repent, then it's time to fill yourself with the new with purpose with hope with love with joy you know things like meaning belonging and trust in god's plan are seen as critical for emotional resilience in the bible and then once you forgive and confess and repent and change your ways and being obedient to god then the next step is filling yourself with faith hope and joy with the virtues Okay. Also living with purpose and hope and more community, you know, meaning and belonging and trusting God's plan are seen as critical for emotional resilience.

46:53Josh Axe:You know, and also I would say this, seeing yourself in the right light, the way God sees you with that type of identity, that you were a sinner, but now you're a saint, you're redeemed. God has called you to do great mighty things. Okay. And so seeing yourself in the right light with a God given identity, knowing you're the child of God, it's so critical to see yourself in the right light. And even seeing yourself as you go through hard times, you know, the book of James also says, like, you know, take joy, my brothers, when you face trials of any kind, because the testing of your faith helps you develop perseverance.

47:26Josh Axe:So even when you're, whenever we talked about earlier, like when you live in a victim state, you stay sick versus when you see yourself and know, okay, I'm an overcomer. I'm becoming a hero in that story. Now, you want to be honest with yourself, okay? Hey, I saw myself as a victim. Now I want to see myself as a hero. And in thinking about how God can use whatever you've gone through for good, starting to focus on it in a different perspective and more of a positive light, no matter how much harm was done, that's incredibly healing. So James says, listen, when you are tested, don't have a victim mindset.

48:03Josh Axe:Have a conquer mindset, knowing that you are getting stronger. You're becoming more resilient, greater perseverance when you go through hard times. That's the mind of sort of that hero that you want to have. So there's a mindset there, a biblical mindset you want to have as you go through trials in life. You know, it's so easy when we're having a really hard time in life, when we're going through, let's say, maybe you think you could lose your job. There's a couple of ways to go through this and thinking you could be let go. One, you could live in a state of worry and thinking I'm a victim, this is unfair, and living in that state.

48:35Now listen, it's okay to have those feelings and to live there for maybe a moment, but it's not going to help you to live there longer.

48:42Josh Axe:It's going to hurt you versus thinking, you know what? I'm going to keep working hard. I'm going to keep honoring God. You know what? God probably has a better job opportunity for me. This isn't the best place for me to work. I can probably contribute more somewhere else, right? So it's having that sort of mindset when you go through trials, it's a form of biblical medicine. You know, when I had my spinal infection and I couldn't walk for the year and I was so, so sick, I had to take those thoughts of feeling like I might never walk again or I might never fully heal. And I had to flip it and I say, you know what?

49:14I'm going to be more spiritually resilient.

49:17Josh Axe:I'm going to be more mentally resilient. I'm going to be more physically resilient. I'm going to use this time to connect with my family. I'm going to write a book. I'm going to praise God through the storm, right? And so it's hard to do, but we're called to do it and it will lead to the best outcome. A few other things the Bible talks about that are medicine for us. One is community, connection with others. Community-based worship is a great thing as well. So, but just attending church every week, once a week, twice a week, more than that, but just going and connecting with other people and praising God together, learning together, serving others together.

49:54Josh Axe:This community-based connection is key, a key form of biblical medicine. and then living in a state of gratitude and praise. We know in studies that actually boost serotonin and reduce inflammation. And think about what James says in the book of James. He says, consider it pure joy when you face trials of many kinds. Think about this. When you are going through a trial, consider it pure joy, gratitude, praise. God, thank you that I can go through this hard trial so I can become more like you as I go through it. You know, I remember when we were first having COVID. Do you guys remember back to that first couple of years, 2020, 2021, when all the lockdowns were happening and all of the crazy, you know, crazy things that government and the CDC were recommending?

50:37And I remember feeling discouraged for a moment thinking, gosh, I can't believe that people are so blind and that we don't understand that people are not seeing that what we need through this is just to live through God's design by eating healthy and spending time in the sun. And like, I was discouraged. I don't know how many of you guys were discouraged as we went through the first couple years of COVID. And then I was with a pastor and we were talking about something. This was very early on in the pandemic. And I said to him, I said, you know what? I've just been a little bit disappointed in the way some people have acted.

51:12And we were talking about some of the challenges. And he said something to me like, you know, Josh, one of the things I've had a change of heart is, and he said, I felt like God told me this, is that I should take joy in this trial right now.

51:27Josh Axe:Because as a leader, a leader gets to shine in times of trial. He said, you said, Josh, you're a leader. And this is now your time to shine and make the biggest difference. He said, if there was no civil war, I don't know how many people would know who Abraham Lincoln was. He said, so when you are going through a hard time or there's a challenge in front of you, is like, you know, this is a time where you get to shine and make the biggest difference during challenges. You get to make the biggest change possible. And I really had a shift in my mindset around that. I said, you know what, this COVID issue, this is not a something to be depressed about.

51:59Josh Axe:It's something to see as a challenge where I can, where I can do the greatest good. Okay. So there's a mindset there, a biblical mindset when we're going through any challenge in life. You know, there's a study published in the Journal of American Medical Association, And this was done on 74 ,000 women. And they found that women who attended religious services more than once a week had a 33 % lower risk of dying from all-cause mortality. Think about that. Just going to church once a week for women, 33 % less mortality and better longevity. People who attend religious services are significantly less likely to die from deaths of despair, including suicide, overdose, and alcohol poisoning, according to the Harvard School of Public Health.

52:43Josh Axe:And another health review in a psychology journal found that prayer and spiritual practices significantly improved immune system health, stress levels, and even pain tolerance. This is believed to be linked to the positive emotions and social connections. And many studies suggest that prayer and meditation can activate relaxation pathways, lowering cortisol, and helping your body heal at a higher level. Even just doing 10 minutes a day, according to one study, 10 minutes a day of prayer and meditation significantly reduced stress in college students and helped them foster more gratitude, hope, and positive emotions.

53:19Josh Axe:So we know that science proves this. We don't need science to prove it, but we know it does. And here are some actions to take in terms of biblical medicine. Number one, practice daily prayer in scripture meditation. Focus on a single verse or truth and just chew on it, pray on it, think about it. Okay. You know, this is something my mom did with cancer. We had about 20 Bible verses and my mom said them over and over and over again. Do that for yourself. Think about that. If you are a spiritual religious person or not, go and look up 10 Bible verses about healing and say them three times a day, every day.

53:56And then also believe and see and know that you're going to be healed. Ask Jesus to heal you and see what happens. So practice daily healing. Number two, participate

54:03Josh Axe:in weekly communion and fellowship with others, going to church. You can even practice communion at home with your family, taking some bread, some blood, and knowing that was Jesus' body and his blood given for you. Number three, confess your burdens and your unforgiveness to a trusted pastor or mentor, somebody that you trust there. Forgive, release your burdens. We're called to do that in the Bible. And then again, forgive and release those who have hurt you and release that bitterness. And then believe that healing is possible. Have faith. It says in Proverbs 18, 21, the tongue has the power of life and death.

54:43Josh Axe:And I want to share with you, due to my father-in-law passing, I mean, these are things that are very personal to me that I've experienced myself. So one, I've counseled people in healing, thousands of patients in using not just diet to help them heal, but also the Bible and spiritual focuses and German new medicine and Chinese medicine, but focusing on those emotional roots to heal, it works. It is incredibly powerful for everybody, not some people, for everyone. It makes a big difference in their healing. I experienced this myself when I lost my father-in-law about a year and a half ago, I had to go through a healing process of forgiving.

55:21I even had to forgive myself. I'm going to be honest about something invulnerable. I thought my father-in-law had a heart attack and I thought to myself, I should have done more in terms of diet with him and urging him to do certain things more, and I didn't do it, so I had to forgive myself. And I had to go through a grieving healing process, and I had to go through some of the moments. I had to forgive myself for some things. I needed to spend some time in prayer. and then also, you know, eating certain things and exercise and doing certain things to also help me relieve grief and stress and a number of things.

56:01But this is a process I just went through. You know, I actually had during my time afterwards, I had some physical ailments from soon after he had passed and I had them for about a year and then they went away about a year after his passing. But again, these are things that I just personally went through. And so I dealt with any childhood trauma if you have any negative emotions or that that where you worry a lot or you get angry a lot or you're fearful a lot or you have something in the past that still bothers you today go and address those issues head on using german new medicine that chinese medicine we talked about and the most powerful one that biblical medicine to heal to overcome the trauma the grief the fear the bitterness because we know medically it suppresses your immune system.

56:47It disrupts your gut. It triggers inflammation, autoimmunity. And if you use these tools, it can help you heal.

56:53Josh Axe:Hey, thanks so much for tuning in here to the Dr. Josh Axe show. Remember each and every week we're diving deep into the science and principles of how you can heal physically, mentally, and spiritually. Also a big thank you to all of you that are subscribed. That's what the number one thing you can do to support the show here is be a subscriber. So you don't miss out. You know, I've actually had a few of my videos over the past few years, shadow band. I had one I just recorded that I thought was going to be one of our biggest podcasts ever in YouTube Shadow Bandit. So if you're not subscribed, you may not have these episodes actually show up in your YouTube feed or in your inbox.

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57:37Josh Axe:You know there are so many people that are hurting out there mentally and emotionally. They don't know that these are the root cause of their disease. So thanks so much for sharing this as well. And I can't wait to see you on the next episode.