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Podcast: The MindHealth360 Show
Episode: 43: Prof. Stephen Porges - Revolutionising mental health diagnosis and treatment with Polyvagal Theory
Description: Conventional mental health treatment manages the symptoms rather than treating root causes of mental health issues. Functional medicine psychiatry seeks to treat the root causes behind these symptoms, whether they are biochemical (hormone imbalances, gut issues, toxic load, inflammation, infections) or psycho-spiritual (adverse childhood experiences, trauma) or both. But what comes first? Do depression, anxiety, insomnia generally come from biochemical imbalances or psycho-spiritual ones? According to the legendary Professor Stephen Porges, biochemical imbalances are the downstream effects of the real root cause of all mental health issues: a dysregulated nervous system, which itself is caused by a chronic physiological...