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The Biases Of Western Medicine | Dr. Gabor Mate

Biases exist in every area of human thought, including western medicine. Dr. Gabor Mate illuminates these biases and points the way toward healing ourselves and society. 0:00 - The Unacknowledged Major Source of Mental and Physical Illness 0:57 - Scientific Evidence for Trauma-Induced Disease 1:36 - Why Early Childhood Coping Mechanisms Make You Ill 2:46 - The Difference Between Science and Ideology 3:36 - The Biases Of Western Medicine 4:45 - How Your Social Environment Changes Your Physiology 5:39 - The Main Role of Our Emotions 6:15 - An Alternative Way To Look At Disease 🌍 Read the science behind this story: https://pediatrics.aappublications.or... 🌍 LIKE, SUBSCRIBE, and SIGN UP FOR NOTIFICATIONS to be alerted to new inspiring stories 🌍 Support us on Patreon ⟹ patreon.com/sustainablehuman Sustainable Human is a 501c3 non-profit whose mission is to examine the underlying stories that give rise to the environmental, social, and economic crises of our time and offer new stories that help humanity to live in harmony with each other and the biosphere. 🌍 Learn more ⟹ sustainablehuman.org/ 🌍 Hire us to tell your story ⟹ sustainablehuman.org/video-storytelling/ 🌍 Sponsor a story ⟹ sustainablehuman.org/sponsor-a-story/ 🌍 Help us translate this video ⟹ sustainablehuman.org/translate/ Transcript: In the realm of child development, I just wish we'd actually looked at the evidence. But we don't. I worked in family practice for 32 years - 12 of them with hardcore drug addicts, the other 20 in a straightforward family practice. And in those years, I found that the people who got sick and didn't get sick had certain patterns. There's one major source of illness and I'm talking about any kind of illness, whether that's so-called mental illness or physical illness. And that's childhood trauma. Trauma is what happens inside you as a result of what happens to you. And things can happen inside you for which you don't need very dramatic events. Growing scientific evidence demonstrates that social and physical environments that threaten human development because of scarcity, stress, or instability, can lead to short term physiologic and psychological adjustments that are necessary for immediate survival and adaptation, but which may come at a significant cost to long term outcomes in learning, behavior, health and longevity. Because those early coping patterns, here's the problem with them. They're meant to be temporary states. If you're familiar with my idea about ADHD which I've been diagnosed with, it's a coping mechanism of young infants when there is stress around them, and they can't escape, fight back, or change the situation, they tune out as a way of coping. But then it gets wired into their brain and now it goes from a temporary state, which it is meant to be, to a long term trait. There's nothing wrong with her coping that way if she could drop it once she no longer needed to be that way. But of course, that's not how it works. These coping mechanisms are unconscious, therefore they're not chosen deliberately. Therefore they cannot be released deliberately either. We're not even aware of them. The reason these patterns make you ill is because it turns out that as traditional medicinal practices have always known, you can't actually separate the mind from the body, except in medical school, but not in real life. Now Western medicine looks at disease from a particular perspective. And you have to understand something about medicine. It's science, all right. But it's also ideology. And there's a difference in science and ideology. An ideology is a worldview that you're not conscious of, that you have hidden beliefs that you don't question. And that exists in all realms, whether it is science or politics or history or economics or any field of human thought or investigation. So there's always ideological biases hidden in any system. Now, what are the biases of Western medicine? The hidden biases are, number one, that diseases have either physical causes in a sense of genes or external forces like bacteria or viruses or toxins, or the diseases are what we call “idiopathic,” we don't know what the source of it is. So that's one bias is that causes are purely physical. The second bias is that diseases happen to organs. So you have a heart disease, and you have lung disease, and you have diseases of the connective tissue or the liver or whatever, and then there's specialties designated to study in depth the diseases of these organs. So we separate the organ from the whole person. We might acknowledge the role of the physical environment, but we certainly are not acknowledging the role of the social environment. License code: MB01EEJLJO9Y1CZ