Welcome to The Social Cure
The Social Cure explores the latest research in the medicine and public health. A lot of this information is only understood by small groups of specialists, but I believe we can all use these insights to improve our personal health and happiness and the well being of the larger communities around us.
Transcript
Athalie: Hi I'm Athalie, host of The Social Cure. The Social Cure explores the latest research in the medicine and public health. A lot of this information is only understood by small groups of specialists, but I believe we can all use these insights to improve our personal health and happiness and the well being of the larger communities around us.
On The Social Cure I'll be interviewing guests about there expertise and personal experience. I'm an avid leaner and am always seeking new research and perspectives to supplement my experience as a nurse, a foster parent, a parent of kids with special needs, an advocate for domestic violence and sexual assault victims, and a medical case manager for people with very complex social, legal, and health problems.
In season one of The Social Cure we'll be exploring Adverse Childhood Experiences. Since a famous study published in the late '90s by some researchers at Kaiser in California, we have known that our experiences of childhood adversity have lifelong effects on our health and happiness. Nearly all of us have experienced at least one of the things studied. And the more adversity we experience, the greater the impacts to our life-span and the likelihood that we develop chronic illness like diabetes, heart disease, substance use disorders, and depression. But this is not the whole picture. These effects are reversible and are not a "death sentence". In season one of the Social Cure Podcast, we're learning how knowing our ACEs can help us build a better way to approach our healthcare and our individual lives.
Join me on the Social Cure as we explore candid conversations about the intersection of social and health issues.
Song Credits
Many thanks to these artists for licensing their music under Creative Commons. Tracks featured in this episode, in order of first appearance, are:
I dunno by grapes (c) copyright 2008 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/grapes/16626 Ft: J Lang, Morusque
