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The Hidden Link: Trauma and Chronic Illness Revealed | Dr. Cathleen King DSH #911

Fri, 22 Nov

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🔍 Discover the powerful connection between trauma and chronic illness in this eye-opening conversation with Cathleen King, CEO of Primal Trust. Learn why your nervous system could be the hidden key to unlocking better health! Cathleen shares her incredible journey from battling chronic Lyme disease, mold toxicity, and severe fatigue to discovering the crucial role of nervous system healing. You'll learn how childhood trauma can impact your physical health, why traditional treatments often fall short, and innovative approaches to healing including eye exercises and vagus nerve techniques. Get ready to understand: • How trauma affects your immune system • The truth about chronic illness and nervous system health • Natural healing techniques you've never heard of • The science behind the mind-body connection • Why addressing trauma could be the missing piece in your health journey This conversation breaks down complex health concepts into practical, actionable insights. Whether you're dealing with chronic illness, interested in holistic health, or simply curious about the mind-body connection, this episode offers valuable knowledge for everyone. Featuring special guest Cathleen King, a former physical therapist turned health innovator who's helped countless people reclaim their health through nervous system regulation and trauma healing. #ChronicIllness #TraumaHealing #HolisticHealth #WellnessJourney #NervousSystemHealth #NaturalHealing #HealthAndWellness #HealingJourney #holistichealth #ptsd #wellnesstips #mentalhealth #traumaandchronicillness CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Intro 01:38 - Health Issues Timeline 05:35 - Eye Exercises for Vision Restoration 08:30 - Primal Trust Academy Overview 09:55 - Trauma's Impact on Physical Health 17:50 - Understanding Mold Illness 20:09 - Insights from "How Healing Happens" Book 22:05 - Importance of Preventative Medicine 24:30 - Kids' Outdoor Time vs. Prisoners 25:42 - 5G Technology and Cancer Risks 27:08 - Censorship on Social Media Platforms 28:12 - AI Applications in Business 29:10 - AI in Life Insurance Industry 30:10 - Trauma Effects on Dental Health 31:00 - Vagus Nerve Connection to Gut Health 32:35 - Future Preparedness Strategies 33:33 - Connecting with Cathleen APPLY TO BE ON THE PODCAST: https://www.digitalsocialhour.com/application BUSINESS INQUIRIES/SPONSORS: [email protected] GUEST: Dr. Cathleen King https://www.instagram.com/primaltrust_official/ https://www.primaltrust.org/ www.youtube.com/@primaltrustofficial LISTEN ON: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/digital-social-hour/id1676846015 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Jn7LXarRlI8Hc0GtTn759 Sean Kelly Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/seanmikekelly/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Chapter 1: How does trauma relate to chronic illness?

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All right, guys. Kathleen King here today, CEO of Primal Trust. An incredible story about healing the body, too. I can't wait to get into it. I'm so excited to be here. Yeah, you're going to change a lot of lives today, I think. I mean, overcoming what you went through. Some of those diseases they say are uncurable, right? Yeah.

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Chapter 2: What are eye exercises for healing?

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So that's what they told you. And then they gave you a pill for it. Well, they actually told me my issue was anxiety. And most of the people that I saw for many years for what was going on, that was their whole framework. It must be anxiety because we don't understand this. There isn't clear testing for the kind of things I had. And oh, yeah, and like an antacid for my stomach.

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Good old Tums, right? Yeah. I used to take Tums and I actually realized it was just anxiety. Yeah. So flip for me. But yeah, I used to pound those, but I'll get this like stomach and chest tightness. Yeah. But it was just terrible anxiety. And a lot of that, I realize now, is from poor diet. Diet's super important.

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Absolutely. It affects your brain. It affects your gut. Yeah, anxiety, that alarm can show up in so many ways in our body and eventually cause the immune system to be dysregulated, our ability to detoxify to be dysregulated. And slowly over time, there's just a system shutdown if it goes unchecked. Right. So I know you struggle with Lyme, mold, fatigue. So when did all that start happening?

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Yeah, I first started getting symptomatic around age 25. So 2003, many years ago, I was traveling. I got a gut infection. Yes, a lot of times these things start in the gut. And then I came back to the States and they're just like, yeah, let's give you that. And and, you know, the. stomach acid pill. I'm like, but I was just traveling. Maybe there was something to do with parasites.

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Chapter 3: How does mold illness affect health?

Chapter 4: What is the Primal Trust Academy?

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Yeah. I used to take Tums and I actually realized it was just anxiety. Yeah. So flip for me. But yeah, I used to pound those, but I'll get this like stomach and chest tightness. Yeah. But it was just terrible anxiety. And a lot of that, I realize now, is from poor diet. Diet's super important.

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Absolutely. It affects your brain. It affects your gut. Yeah, anxiety, that alarm can show up in so many ways in our body and eventually cause the immune system to be dysregulated, our ability to detoxify to be dysregulated. And slowly over time, there's just a system shutdown if it goes unchecked. Right. So I know you struggle with Lyme, mold, fatigue. So when did all that start happening?

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Yeah, I first started getting symptomatic around age 25. So 2003, many years ago, I was traveling. I got a gut infection. Yes, a lot of times these things start in the gut. And then I came back to the States and they're just like, yeah, let's give you that. And and, you know, the. stomach acid pill. I'm like, but I was just traveling. Maybe there was something to do with parasites.

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Oh, no, we don't have parasites in the U.S. I'm like, I know, but I was just out of the country. No, no, no. You know, it's just this. And then, yeah, many years of just feeling unwell. I think I was one of the first people to cut gluten out of my diet before anyone knew what that was. But over time, I went from doctor to doctor and my symptoms just got worse. I had to stop working.

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I was a physical therapist. And yeah, I found myself mostly bedbound over time. Many years later, I finally got diagnosed with Lyme disease, mold toxicity, chronic fatigue syndrome and a whole bunch of. other things that go into that category, and still went from doctor to doctor. And there wasn't a lot of help back then. The nervous system wasn't usually part of the game.

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It was trying to figure out what antibiotics or supplements I could take, but I was intolerant to almost everything. I was that classic, highly sensitive, can't even tolerate a drop of homeopathic person because the root issue was more around my nervous system than about the bugs and the toxins that had built up. 100%.

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It was absolutely compromised because that's what brought me out of the hell was working on my nervous system. And now we know that your autonomic nervous system is the big daddy behind chronic illness. Unresolving chronic symptoms, your autonomic nervous system is playing a part and that needs to be addressed.

Chapter 5: Why is preventative medicine important?

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And how do people watching this know the status of their nervous system, if it's healthy or not? Yeah. Do you wake up feeling angst? Do you have that pain that you described in your stomach or random pains, digestive issues, feeling like you're constantly ruminating and forecasting, feeling like you need to double check and control everything?

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constantly body scanning, constantly researching on Google, having all sorts of weird symptoms that come and go and you're playing whack-a-mole with them because you can't quite get on top of them. And it seems like you work on one thing and then all of a sudden something else pops up. It's probably your autonomic nervous system that is contributing to a lot of your condition.

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And that's interesting. And then from there, we are taught to take a pill for that, to fix it. Yes, we are taught that we go to a doctor and this

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great power will give us this pill and it will solve it all and unfortunately when the nervous system is really involved it's just not going to work and you're going to need another pill and another pill and another protocol and another doctor and if you're like me I spent tens of thousands of dollars saw probably 30 plus practitioners and just went from thing to thing and they'd all come up with the latest diagnosis I had a diagnosis list as long as a sheet of paper and

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And still I was sick. And that's when I eventually had to give up on that route. I had lost all our money. We were bankrupt, basically, living off from, at the time, church welfare. And I couldn't afford to see the doctor. So I started using the skills I used to teach people as a physical therapist with chronic pain. I didn't have chronic pain.

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I had all sorts of other neurological symptoms from Lyme disease, but I started using these brain and body nervous system skills and it started to work. And I'm like, wait a minute. I was told this is a real infection. I have these real toxins and I have all these other conditions. Why is this brain and eye exercises and vagus nerve exercises?

Chapter 6: What is the connection between trauma and the nervous system?

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Why didn't a doctor give this to me 10 years ago, 15 years ago? So, yeah, that's what turned me around and led me on the path of what I'm doing now. Absolutely. I want to talk about these eye exercises and vagus nerve exercises because people wouldn't even think that would impact health, right? Doing an eye exercise? Nope. So what's the, I guess, science behind that?

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Yeah. So when I first learned, it was a science based on functional neurology, which are these eye exercises. Sometimes they're called eye yoga exercises. And they impact the way that your brain processes information. Your eyes are one of the most direct connections to your brain. And they also connect to the back of your neck, your upper cervical region.

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So I used to use them for people with upper cervical instability, chronic pain, and helping with brain processing of pain.

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Chapter 7: How can childhood trauma impact adult health?

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i decided to try them for me because i was at the point where i couldn't handle light i couldn't handle sound i couldn't drive and sure enough within a week of doing these eye exercises i started to get my function back my brain started to process better because what's happening is that you have a whole body inflammatory response and when that inflammation causes your brain to kind of go offline so the eye exercises are like a workout for your brain to start communicating between the front brain the midbrain the hindbrain

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stabilizing your upper cervical spine, which also helps to influence your vagus nerve. It's a really powerful nerve that affects a lot of your body. And so I was really getting my brain online, getting my vagus nerve functioning again. And then a lot of my infection symptoms started to subside as the brain processing improved. That's so fascinating. Yeah. Was your vision restored too?

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Yeah. Yep. Absolutely. And anxiety is really great for anxiety and all sorts of things. So yeah. I'm going to be contacting you because people are pushing LASIK, but that seems very invasive.

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Yeah. There's so much you can do. There's a lot of... There's even a lot of professional companies that work with athletes and they do all these eye training exercises. One company is called Z Health. They have a very affordable eye training program for people that are, it's marketed for athletes, but it's great for anxiety, health issues, vision issues.

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And of course we teach the eye exercises as well in Primal Trust.

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Yeah, I could see it being very beneficial for athletes because that could give them a huge edge in sports, right? Their reaction times will be quicker. Yeah, I remember because I'm a basketball player and I used to deny that I had bad vision because of my ego. But as soon as I put on contacts, my game just elevated. So vision is important. And I'm learning now dental health is super important.

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Yes. That's another thing that's, again, influencing the brain function and the body and the autonomic nervous system. Another thing just to make sure your eyes, your teeth, the way we're breathing, all of these things affect our health. Yeah. I'm seeing these Eastern charts where like each tooth is connected to an organ. Yep. Yeah. They knew what they were doing in the East.

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Yeah. But out here, you don't learn any of those methodologies. And I try to live as holistic as possible. So I align with the Eastern stuff more because it's more preventative. Yeah, absolutely. And it actually makes sense when you read the science behind Eastern philosophy and health. I incorporate a lot of that in what we do. Right. So that's with Primal Trust Academy, right? Yeah.

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And is that a teaching thing or how is that structured?

Chapter 8: What are the steps to healing from trauma?

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It's stuck in our body, and we need to teach the body that it's safe to discharge that energy. Right. Do you think that built up trauma can lead to physical health issues?

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100%. That is my whole spiel. If I were to go back and tell myself 20 years ago, hey, Kat, you know what's wrong with you? The trauma from your childhood has been stuck in your body. It's caused your immune system to kind of go haywire. It's confused. You have a confused immune system now.

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Your detoxification system is jammed up, and your ability to have your mind and body communicate has been locked because you don't want to feel pain. Well, it has been stuck in there. And over time, this affects your organs. It affects your function.

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And if you get bit by a tick or exposed to a parasite or a virus, well, now your body doesn't know how to deal with it because your autonomic nervous system is locked from trauma. So, Kat, you need to go on a trauma healing pathway. It's not about the anxiety pill and it's not about the antacid. It's about your trauma.

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And I wish that someone would have explained this to me and explained the science to me back then because I didn't understand until, you know, about seven years ago.

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Absolutely. I definitely think there's a link to because I used to get sick every month before I addressed my trauma. And now I rarely knock on wood get sick. So yeah, once I addressed the trauma, I don't know if there's a direct correlation, but definitely didn't get sick as much.

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So yeah, absolutely. There's so many studies out there. The childhood ACEs study the it's called a childhood ACEs study by Kaiser Permanente in the late 90s. Are you familiar with that? No.

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Okay, super cool. Everybody, you're going to want to check this out. So it was a study done by Kaiser Permanente in the late 90s. And it's 10 questions. And these 10 questions give you a score on your likelihood of developing chronic illness as an adult. So it's questions about what happened to you as a child. And I don't think it's a complete list.

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You know, it's, you know, there's a lot of different types of trauma. But for example, if you score four or higher, you're going to have a high likelihood of having serious chronic illness as an adult. Wow. If you score, and my score was nine out of 10. Damn, you've been through some stuff. Overachiever in trauma.

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