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The Biology of Trauma® With Dr. Aimie

Dr. Aimie Apigian

People are done dancing around the topic of trauma. They"re ready to face this square-on. None of the current systems are getting to the root of the issue in the current model. Their biology has been affected on a cellular level, and that is now what"s preventing the important work that they"re trying to do. The Biology of Trauma® podcast is the missing piece to that puzzle. It"s a practical living manual for the human body in a modern, traumatizing world. Join your host, Dr. Aimie Apigian—a

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00:23:25

Can I Safely Feel Emotions I Buried? Dr. Howard...

The Biology of Trauma® With Dr. Aimie ·

2026/10/08

Emotions held down for decades are still shaping your body.What will surprise you is that the way back can start very small, even with one finger.This is Part 2 of a two-part conversation. Part 1 is here.➡ Full show notes + resources➡Trauma Pattern Quiz: https://draimie.co/4jIXc9VDr. Aimie continues her conversation with Dr. Howard Schubiner, internist, Clinical Professor at Michigan State and an early mentor of hers. He describes what changes in the body when an emotion held down for decades is

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00:20:02

Is My Pain Coming From My Brain? Dr. Howard Schubiner

The Biology of Trauma® With Dr. Aimie ·

2026/10/06

➡ Full show notes + resources➡Trauma Pattern quiz:Pain that no test has fully explained is still real pain.What will surprise you is that the brain decides whether to turn on pain, and it treats emotional danger from childhood or from an unjust world as danger.This is Part 1 of a two-part conversationDr.Aimie welcomes back Dr.Howard Schubiner, internist, Clinical Professor at Michigan State and author of Unlearn Your Pain. He describes how a child who learned to keep the peace grows into an adult

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00:27:23

Where Do I Start With Flaring Mast Cells? Dr. Bruce...

The Biology of Trauma® With Dr. Aimie ·

2026/10/01

➡ Full show notes + resourcesYou react to everything. You want to find the cause and get rid of it.What will surprise you is that the most common place people start, binders, chelation or a mold detox, may be the very thing that makes a reactive body worse.This is Part 2 of a two-part conversation. Part 1 is here: Apple · Spotify · show notes.Dr. Aimie and Dr. Bruce Hoffman talk about where to start when the body reacts to everything. Dr. Hoffman shares the order he used for 30 years with his most

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00:29:58

Why Do My Mast Cells React to Stress? Dr. Bruce Hoffman

The Biology of Trauma® With Dr. Aimie ·

2026/09/29

Full show notes + resources[COMPANION GUIDE NAME]: Every term from this conversation explained in plain words, in the order it comes up.First it was one food. Now it is smells, supplements, heat and stress, and the list keeps growing.What will surprise you is that mast cells respond to your total load, and a sensitized system can react to the thought of a trigger alone.This is Part 1 of a two-part conversation. [Part 2 is here: EP 198 LINK]Dr. Aimie sits down with Dr. Bruce Hoffman, who spent 30

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00:30:36

How long does it take to heal a dysregulated nervous...

The Biology of Trauma® With Dr. Aimie ·

2026/09/22

➡ Full show notes + resources:In this solo episode, Dr. Aimie explains what dysregulation actually is and why it never exists on its own. She walks through the patterns of stored trauma that feed it, and the four questions you can use to tell whether your nervous system is healing.She also shares why children's nervous systems change faster than adults', what a patient in the ICU taught her about changing slowly, and why biology is the most neglected piece of nervous system repair.WHAT YOU'LL

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00:24:53

Why Are My Autoimmune Symptoms Worse in Perimenopause?

The Biology of Trauma® With Dr. Aimie ·

2026/09/15

Your labs keep coming back acceptable. Your symptoms keep getting harder to hold. And you have probably landed on one of two conclusions: either something is wrong with you that nobody has found yet, or something is wrong with how you are handling it.I want to offer a third.Full show notesThree things change at the same time in this decade, and each one is invisible on its own.Your immune baseline was set decades before perimenopause. Estrogen, which your immune system has been reading as an

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00:29:46

I don't ask about your past. Here's what I ask

The Biology of Trauma® With Dr. Aimie ·

2026/09/08

I do not ask about your past. I do not get out the checklist of adverse childhood experiences. I am not calculating your ACE score. And I know how strange that sounds coming from a physician who works with stored trauma.Full show notesWhat I look at is the impact of your past on your today, because that is where it is still leaving its footprint.In this episode I walk you through the assessment I teach practitioners, so you can run it on yourself. Three domains, one repeating pattern, and the

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00:30:32

Why Depression May Be an Early Sign of Autoimmunity

The Biology of Trauma® With Dr. Aimie ·

2026/08/25

Your labs confirmed the autoimmune diagnosis. The hardest symptom turned out to be the one nobody prepared you for.Dr. Aimie goes solo on depression and autoimmunity, and which one actually comes first. The answer is less orderly than the one most people are given, and it changes what to do about it. ➡️ Full show notes and research: CLICK HERE Most people are told depression is a reasonable response to being ill. Dr. Aimie interrupts that conclusion with what the research shows: each condition

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00:21:49

Gut or thyroid first in chronic freeze? Dr. Amie...

The Biology of Trauma® With Dr. Aimie ·

2026/08/20

You have been doing the work. The therapy, the somatic practices, the self-care. And your body still will not come online.You have also been doing the gut protocol. Months of it. And the exhaustion has not lifted. Here is what almost nobody tells you. The thyroid governs gut motility. When it runs low and slow, the bloating and the constipation you have been treating from the gut end may have been downstream of the thyroid the whole time. So you can do everything right, in the right order, and

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00:36:41

Stuck in Freeze? The Thyroid Piece Nobody Checked

The Biology of Trauma® With Dr. Aimie ·

2026/08/18

You have been doing the work. You understand your patterns. And you are still waking up unable to face the day.When the body decides survival is the priority, it stops converting thyroid hormone into the form your cells can use. It produces an inactive version instead, called reverse T3, and that version blocks the active hormone at the cell door. The result is a body running low and slow. It is the same physiology I call chronic functional freeze. Dr. Amie Hornaman ranks reverse T3 as the single

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00:23:14

Can I Recover From Medical Trauma? Dr. Jim Jackson...

The Biology of Trauma® With Dr. Aimie ·

2026/08/13

Most trauma has a place you can avoid. Medical trauma lives inside your body, so there is nowhere to go.Dr. Aimie sits down with Dr. James Jackson for the second half of their conversation on medical trauma. What will surprise you is how much recovery is available while the symptoms are still present. This is Part 2 of a two part conversation. Part 1 is here. ➡ Full show notes + resources: https://bit.ly/BOT190 Dr. Jackson works with people recovering after critical illness, and he is direct about

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00:25:56

Medical Trauma Has a Name, with Dr. Jim Jackson (Part 1)

The Biology of Trauma® With Dr. Aimie ·

2026/08/11

A hospital saved your life, and now you plan your route so you do not drive past it. That has a name, and the name is medical trauma. Medical trauma is a trauma response that comes from a medical experience. It can follow an ICU stay, a hard surgery, or an emergency C-section. Post-intensive care syndrome, or PICS, describes new or worsened problems in thinking, mood, and physical function after critical illness. Full show notes:

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00:29:16

What Type of Anxiety Do I Have? Dr. Nicole Cain (Part 2)

The Biology of Trauma® With Dr. Aimie ·

2026/08/06

A new mom was losing weight without trying. Her heart raced. Waves of panic arrived without warning. Her doctor congratulated her on the weight and offered her something for the anxiety. Her anxiety had been doing its job the whole time. It was a message from her thyroid. In Part 2, Dr. Aimie and Dr. Nicole Cain, author of Panic Proof, walk through the last six of the nine body systems that can produce anxiety. Nervous system, endocrine, immune system, depressive, anger, and trauma anxiety. Each one

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00:34:56

Why Do I Feel Anxious for No Reason? with Dr. Nicole...

The Biology of Trauma® With Dr. Aimie ·

2026/08/04

You feel anxious. Nothing has happened. Nothing is wrong on paper.Dr. Aimie learned in the emergency room that anxiety is never one thing. Someone would come in and say the word, and her job was to work out why. It could be a hard week. It could be a heart attack. Same word, two entirely different bodies. She still runs that checklist on herself. Then she read Dr. Nicole Cain's book Panic Proof and found the same approach mapped into nine types, each one named for the body system driving it. In

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00:34:35

Is Not Trying Laziness, or Survival? With Josh Trent...

The Biology of Trauma® With Dr. Aimie ·

2026/07/30

You know the thing that would help. You have known for a while. You still have not done it.Dr. Aimie recognized herself in the research on learned helplessness. For a long stretch of her life she expected everything to be hard, expected to fail, and quietly stopped trying without ever deciding to. It is not laziness. It is a body that learned effort did not matter and powered the effort down. In this Part 2 conversation, recorded in Josh Trent's Austin studio, they talk about what separates

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00:28:33

Josh Trent on Why We Escape Instead of Rest (Part 1)

The Biology of Trauma® With Dr. Aimie ·

2026/07/28

You finally have an evening with nothing in it. Twenty minutes later you are on your phone. Josh Trent spent most of his life in a body that did not know how to rest. A clench in his stomach. A breath that stayed high in his chest. His first memory is of being a boy watching the adults around him be angry, unable to change it and unable to leave. The bracing stayed for thirty years. Dr. Aimie and Josh talk about why stillness can feel unsafe, what separates real rest from escape, and why so many

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00:22:58

Why Do I Crash Every Time I Finally Slow Down?

The Biology of Trauma® With Dr. Aimie ·

2026/07/21

Why do I crash every time I finally slow down? Maybe you feel fine all week, then crash on the weekend. Maybe an open Saturday fills you with a quiet dread. So you fill it. An early bike ride. A full list. Anything to keep moving. Many people call this high-functioning burnout. It has a name, and it has a cause.➡️ Full show notes: https://www.biologyoftrauma.com/post/episode-184-why-you-crash-when-you-slow-down-the-pattern-of-depletion WHAT YOU'LL LEARN: 01:34 — Why do I crash every time I

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00:23:44

Grieving Is a Skill: HRV, Intention, and the Biology...

The Biology of Trauma® With Dr. Aimie ·

2026/07/16

Most of us were told to grieve, to rest, to be present. Nobody taught us the skill. In Part 2, Dr. Aimie and neuroscientist Dr. David Rabin get into heart rate variability and resilience, why anxiety masks itself as focus, and why grieving is a skill your body has to learn. Feeling safe enough to feel is where the work begins. ➡️ Full show notes: https://www.biologyoftrauma.com/post/why-grieving-is-a-skill-what-hrv-reveals-about-resilience-david-rabin 01:03 — Why is heart rate variability the key

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00:18:21

Why Stress Was Never the Enemy, with Dr. David Rabin...

The Biology of Trauma® With Dr. Aimie ·

2026/07/14

Stress was never the enemy. Your body was built to use it. What wears the body down is chronic stress with no recovery on the other side. Translational neuroscientist Dr. David Rabin splits stress into two forms. Eustress builds capacity. Distress, carried over time, moves the body toward disease. ➡️ Full show notes: https://www.biologyoftrauma.com/post/eustress-distress-difference-means-for-your-body-david-rabin In This Episode You'll Learn: 01:25 — What does the equation eustress × time = ease

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00:32:14

EP 181: What Your Food Cravings Reveal About What You...

The Biology of Trauma® With Dr. Aimie ·

2026/07/07

Cravings point to a need underneath. This episode covers the three unmet needs behind food. It looks at the childhood roots of reaching for it. And it helps you tell stress from something deeper. ➡️ Full show notes: https://www.biologyoftrauma.com/post/what-your-food-cravings-mean-nervous-system In This Episode You'll Learn: 01:11 — The difference between hunger and an unmet need 05:27 — When a craving is really about connection or a memory 08:03 — What states does a parent go into when food

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