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Annie Hopper
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Wired for Healing: Remapping the Brain to Recover from Chronic and Mysterious Illnesses
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2015
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2 editions
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“Systemic inflammation is implicated in many chronic diseases and, not surprisingly, is also involved in limbic system conditions. While an acute trauma may cause the initial inflammation, it is the maladapted stress response involved with limbic system dysfunction that keeps the brain and body in a state of chronic inflammation. Psychological, emotional, and physical responses to stress are equally as important and can cause the brain to release a specific chemical cocktail that causes a chain of reactions in the body.”
― Wired for Healing: Remapping the Brain to Recover from Chronic and Mysterious Illnesses
― Wired for Healing: Remapping the Brain to Recover from Chronic and Mysterious Illnesses
“My state of health rapidly started to change when I understood that a faulty protective mechanism in my brain was triggering a chronic stress and inflammatory response in my body that also caused heightened sensory perception.”
― Wired for Healing: Remapping the Brain to Recover from Chronic and Mysterious Illnesses
― Wired for Healing: Remapping the Brain to Recover from Chronic and Mysterious Illnesses
“Toxic trauma can also cause disruption in neuro-immune signaling, that is, in the connections between the brain and the immune system. When in a chronic stress response, the brain’s immune cells, microglia, overreact. Microglia are basically white blood cells in the brain that represent the body’s first line of immune defense, and their overreaction triggers the excessive secretion of cytokines that can cause pain and neural degeneration, increase inflammation, and alter gene expression”
― Wired for Healing: Remapping the Brain to Recover from Chronic and Mysterious Illnesses
― Wired for Healing: Remapping the Brain to Recover from Chronic and Mysterious Illnesses
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