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Childhood Disrupted

Join in conversations inspired by Donna Jackson Nakazawa's book, Childhood Disrupted: How Your Biography Becomes Your Biology, and How You Can Heal. We'll chat about the latest research on how ACEs can affect our health, happiness, and relationships; vent a little; and brainstorm our best ideas for resiliency and healing.

I found this book through a side door.  I have been looking for information to suppress inflammation,since my knees have been hurting more and less for twenty years.   During an exam, my doctor said I had considerable crepitus (clicking and popping when flexing the knee joints).  I asked him if he could prescribe an anti-inflammatory regimen or medicine?  He asked me what the problem was and I described the continuing knee pain.  His response was to take ibuprofen as needed.
I wanted to stop/prevent/suppress the inflammation altogether and he wanted to treat the symptoms.  True, it was a non steroidal anti-inflammatory an NSAID, unfortunately we had just been concerned with my liver function tests being off due to using ibuprofen...  Sigh!!!

I started searching for whatever anti-inflammatory practices I could find.
I found numerous items that were anti-inflammatory through a book, "The Gene Smart Diet" by Floyd Chilton. After reading it and getting some help through implementing what I could, I continued looking for other ways to take care of inflammation and found that many places talk about their supplement's antioxidant properties, not their anti-inflammatory properties.

I have put together a few items and have suppressed the inflammation as long as I remember to keep drinking this and eating that.
I keep looking for info and references on anti-inflammatories and in the search found this book.

This brings me to "Childhood Disrupted" by Nakazawa.
Wow!!!
Our biography can influence our biology through a process known as epigenetics.  This resonates with me and several of my friends.  My ACEs score is 6 to 8 depending on how I interpret the questions.  My main abuse (emotional, sexual, extreme neglect, emotional incest, etc) occurred between the ages of 6-16, I had some good fatherly influence early on.  I had a strong sense of who had the problems when bad things were happening and didn't internalize most of the negative self talk.  I still had plenty of problems with relationships, authority figures, self reliance, being more successful than others in my family and inflammation issues.

The above is necessarily a bare bones description.

I eagerly read Nakazawa's book and am in the process of learning to implement the strategies she writes about to reset the brain pathways that were misaligned during the abusive periods in my life.

Does anyone have any data on what works the best?

Many times we can get 80% of the improvement with just 20% of our effort. I would like to focus first on the most promising intervention and go from there.
So far it looks like Mindful Meditation is my first stop.  I found an app (it is wonderful to live in this age isn't it?) Headspace that will give me 10 days free to try it out.
Does anyone have any clinically verified interventions and how useful they are?
I'll also try any anecdotal suggestions as well, when many people find something helpful research later verifies what others were doing...
Thanks

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