Adverse Childhood Experiences Study
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Adverse Childhood Experiences Study has come up in 1 episode across 1 podcast in TMT, including The Mel Robbins Podcast. 1 person has made recorded remarks about it.
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Nadine Burke HarrisAmerican pediatrician, ACEs researcher and former Surgeon General of California
Burke Harris says health-damaging behaviors account for only about half of the added risk from ACEs, with the rest attributable to the overactive stress response.
“looked at what happens when you remove the impact of health-damaging behaviors. And that was only about 50% of the risk”
The Mel Robbins Podcast: Nervous System Reset: Do THIS Every Day to Rewire Your Brain From Stress and Anxiety (Apr 27, 2026) · Listen from 18:17
Burke Harris states that people with four or more ACEs had markedly elevated risks of depression, alcohol and opiate dependence, and heart disease.
“a person with four more ACEs was four and a half times as likely to experience depression, was seven times as likely to experience alcohol dependence”
The Mel Robbins Podcast: Nervous System Reset: Do THIS Every Day to Rewire Your Brain From Stress and Anxiety (Apr 27, 2026) · Listen from 18:17
Burke Harris reports that the ACE Study found two-thirds of people had at least one ACE and that the CDC's updated data shows one in six Americans have four or more.
“Now, nationally, it's one in six individuals have experienced four or more of these traditional ACEs”
The Mel Robbins Podcast: Nervous System Reset: Do THIS Every Day to Rewire Your Brain From Stress and Anxiety (Apr 27, 2026) · Listen from 17:03
Podcasts
- The Mel Robbins Podcast · 1 episode
Episodes
Nervous System Reset: Do THIS Every Day to Rewire Your Brain From Stress and AnxietyThe Mel Robbins Podcast · Apr 27, 2026 · 1 h 15 min
Mel Robbins talks with pediatrician Dr. Nadine Burke Harris about adverse childhood experiences, overactive stress responses, and buffering practices that help regulate the nervous system.