Toxic stress
Subject in Medicine
Toxic stress has come up in 1 episode across 1 podcast in TMT, including The Mel Robbins Podcast. 1 person has made recorded remarks about it.
What people said
Nadine Burke HarrisAmerican pediatrician, ACEs researcher and former Surgeon General of California
Burke Harris recounts that an endocrinologist advised psychotherapy rather than hormonal therapy for a boy whose growth arrested after trauma, and that his growth and asthma improved.
“the treatment, if that's the case, is not hormonal therapy. It's talk therapy, right?”
The Mel Robbins Podcast: Nervous System Reset: Do THIS Every Day to Rewire Your Brain From Stress and Anxiety (Apr 27, 2026) · Listen from 11:46
Burke Harris argues that trauma is the body's biological response to overwhelming stress rather than the stressful event itself.
“At its core, trauma is the biological response to overwhelming stress. So a lot of us think of it as the stressor, the thing that happened to us”
The Mel Robbins Podcast: Nervous System Reset: Do THIS Every Day to Rewire Your Brain From Stress and Anxiety (Apr 27, 2026) · Listen from 7:22
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.