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Feb 2023
52m 44s

Gabor Maté

Fearne Cotton
About this episode

Women are often made to look after the emotional needs of their families, while simultaneously denying their own. Gabor Maté – who has decades of experience as a doctor working with mental illness, trauma, and addiction – says that’s having a very real physical effect on our bodies by way of autoimmune diseases.


In this chat, Fearne and Gabor discuss the relationship between mental stress and physical outcomes, as well as the way in which the political systems we live in are having a huge impact on our personal mental health.


The Myth Of Normal, the book that Gabor has written with his son Daniel, is available to buy now.


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