# 61. Why You Still Feel Stuck (Even When You’re Doing Everything Right): The Hidden Role of Trauma and Stress  | Hope for Cancer, Dementia, Alzheimer’s, MS, ALS, Heart Disease

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Published: 2026-03-23T09:00:00+00:00
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If you’ve tried everything but still feel stuck in symptoms, this episode will help you understand how long-standing stress and trauma patterns in the body can influence inflammation, immune function, and your ability to heal. In this episode of Renegade Remission , we explore how trauma and chronic stress are not just psychological experiences, but biological patterns that shape how the body functions over time. You’ll hear a clinical narrative shared by Dr. Gabor Maté describing a patient with autoimmune disease whose symptom patterns began to shift after addressing long-held emotional and nervous system patterns alongside medical care. From there, we break down what research shows about how trauma affects the nervous system, hormone regulation, immune signaling, and inflammatory load. This episode is not about blame, and it is not about revisiting painful memories. It is about understanding how the body adapts to stress and how those adaptations can remain active long after the original stress has passed. In this episode, you’ll understand: How trauma reshapes nervous system patterns that influence inflammation and immune behavior Why chronic survival-mode activation can affect symptoms, flares, and recovery capacity How stress hormones and immune signaling become dysregulated over time What epigenetics research reveals about how stress patterns can shift, not stay fixed Practical, trauma-informed ways to support healing without overwhelm or re-traumatization You’ll begin to see how unresolved stress patterns are not a personal flaw, but a biological adaptation, and fortunately, one that can change. Listen now to understand how trauma and chronic stress may be influencing your body and begin with one small, safe step that helps your nervous system shift toward repai…

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