Also, I'm
kidding about the brain development.
Not exact matches
Research suggests that
about a third of
kids are lucky enough to escape trauma, but
about a quarter suffer such high doses that it affects
brain development, immune and endocrine functioning, and can create mental and physical disease systems that reduce the lifespan by an average of 20 years.
For
kids, many parents also try to avoid products with bisphenol - A (BPA) because of concerns
about its potential to mimic estrogen, lead to reproductive problems, increase the risk of cancer and interfere with
brain development and fat metabolism.
She believes understanding child
brain development is one of the most exciting advancements in parenting and loves learning
about how
kids»
brains get wired up.
Hopefully they use the feedback from their readers and get educated
about the very important role food plays in the
development of our
kids»
brains and bodies!
[00:03:53] Well so there's a couple of things to kind of unpack in there so you are exactly right that we know that children who have been exposed to repeated complex trauma we do see changes in their ongoing
brain development and
brain chemistry and I am no neuroscientist however we know that for example the simple way to think
about it is that those are
kids who may have changes as you said in their stress response their reactivity so they may be
kids who you know sort of fight or flight in sort of a simplistic way is changed so that they may react in an overexaggerated way or they may also have sort of an inappropriately low response to danger.