![]() ![]() "The difference between adaptive and maladaptive reactions is all about the when. She and her staff determined that high doses of stress hormones at the wrong developmental stage affected children's downstream health. Stunned, Burke Harris coupled that with the glut of ADHD children, all with high degrees of life disruption or trauma. He'd been sexually assaulted at age four an endocrinologist confirmed that trauma was enough to stop his growth. It began with Diego, a seven-year-old with ADHD and a physiology three years younger. ![]() ![]() "Even bootstrap heroes find themselves pulled up short by their biology." Burke Harris wanted to know why she found the answers in her pediatric clinic in a low-income community of color in San Francisco. ![]() What we believe: "People who are smart and strong enough are able to rise above the past and triumph through the force of their own will and resilience." In The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-term Effects of Childhood Adversity (Bluebird, $21.90), Nadine Burke Harris says, "But with caveats." Childhood adversity can affect physical development, trigger chronic inflammation and hormonal changes, alter how cells replicate, and dramatically increase the risk for heart disease, stroke, cancer, obesity, diabetes and Alzheimer's. ![]()
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