“Trauma Isn’t Just Psychological — It’s Biological: How Survival Mode Rewires the Body.”

𝟖. 🦠 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐮𝐦𝐚 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐢𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐛𝐢𝐨𝐦𝐞
Chronic stress and emotional pain physically reshape the gut flora.

Effects include:
• decreased beneficial bacteria
• increased inflammatory species
• reduced short-chain fatty acids
• permeability (“leaky gut”)
• histamine intolerance
• food sensitivities

The gut becomes a mirror of the nervous system.

In fact, trauma often shows up in stool tests.
Safety increases beneficial bacteria.
Threat increases pathogenic signaling.

𝟗. ❤️ 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐮𝐦𝐚 𝐀𝐥𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐅𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐢𝐚𝐜 𝐑𝐡𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐦
The heart is not only a pump — it’s an electrical organ.
It responds immediately to emotional signals.

Trauma causes:
• decreased heart rate variability (HRV)
• irregular rhythms
• palpitations
• increased cardiovascular inflammation
• constricted blood vessels

A traumatized body beats differently.