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Sep 2024
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Healing Trauma in a Toxic Culture with D...

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Why do more people suffer from mental illness now than ever before? In this episode, Dr. Gabor Maté and Jeff discuss the premise that disease in our society is actually a normal consequence of a toxic social system driven by short-term profits over long-term human health.

This episode originally aired on September 8, 2022

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