Gabor Maté
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Oct 28, 2026
Robert LufkinGUEST
You substitute the alcohol addiction for something which may not be less harmful, but actually is sugar addiction with the sugar.
Robert LufkinGUEST
and always you know guaranteed if you go to an alcoholics anonymous meeting outside everyone will be chain smoking on the brakes because they have that tobacco addiction you can substitute as well so i think so your point is i think that it's not enough necessarily just to address the the primary addiction problem but we have to look at What's underneath it? What's the root cause? And in my opinion, it goes back to, you know, Gabor Mate and others, you know, about our view of reality and the traumas that have shaped our reality.
Florence ChristophersHOST
Absolutely.
Florence ChristophersHOST
So tell us a little bit more.
Rana Al-FalakiGUEST
Those are all things that are that really negative, low-grade energy that makes you ill. Dis-ease.
Payman LangroudiHOST
I was at the Gabor Mate and he was saying that there's published research on sort of people pleasing leading to autoimmune disease.
Rana Al-FalakiGUEST
Yeah.
Payman LangroudiHOST
And so like as a scientist, you think, come on, this isn't real.
Christine MilesHOST
yeah,
Traci ArendsGUEST
you know, if you follow Gabor Mate at all, his story, right, it wasn't like that, I mean, you know, he did eventually escaped to the North Sea with someone, he was shot on the way down, and, but escaped to the North Sea and waited out the war, but, and then he had an absent father that left to abandon his family, so that was kind of his you know, how he was molded.
Traci ArendsGUEST
Right.
Traci ArendsGUEST
And we carry all that stuff.
Christine MilesHOST
breaking patterns, right? Because so let's go back.
Christine MilesHOST
Cause I'm going to go back.
Christine MilesHOST
You said, first thing you said is you referenced Dr. Gabor Mate.
Christine MilesHOST
So what, what was the meaning of that in context, just for my listeners?
Erica HolmesGUEST
I follow some people and some of them I don't.
Erica HolmesGUEST
I don't know if it's fine, but if I could mention some of them, but Dr. Gabor Maté, I love his work.
Erica HolmesGUEST
And Peter Levine, Dr. Peter Levine, I love their work.
Erica HolmesGUEST
Peter Levine is a somatic therapist.
Erica HolmesGUEST
He's a psychologist.
Erica HolmesGUEST
He's so much more.
Erica HolmesGUEST
And Dr. Gabor Maté is the MD.
Erica HolmesGUEST
They've done extensive studying and research in regards to when trauma occurs in and it's not dealt with, it literally can start impacting your body, somatically or physically.
Max NijstHOST
Right.
Max NijstHOST
And even, um, that, um, He's from Canada, Gabor Mate, right? He says, I think in his studies, in his research, he said, I believe he says that even if it's not biological, most addiction comes from trauma, like a trauma that has happened to us, right? Whether it's physical, sexual, emotional abuse, whatever the case may be, it's something big enough where our minds went, I know it's going to make things get better.
Jennifer ChaseGUEST
That's how substance becomes the solution, right? And I think a lot of people, I used to work in the treatment field for a long, long time, and people would come to me and say, Jennifer, I don't have trauma like you have, right? And they're talking about the capital T trauma.
Max NijstHOST
Right.
Sohère RokedGUEST
And also, I'm just, I've always been fascinated by the mind-body connection and how important that is for our health.
Sohère RokedGUEST
And, you know, I've read a lot of Gabor Mate and really also looking at trauma and how trauma influences our health.
Sohère RokedGUEST
in such a big way.
Sohère RokedGUEST
And it was actually my own therapist who said to me, oh, I've seen this course advertised.
Izzeldin BukhariGUEST
But of course, these people are being diminished and their voices being suppressed.
Izzeldin BukhariGUEST
But I mean, some of them are very loud, like Gabor Mate and Daniel Mate and many other lovely people.
Izzeldin BukhariGUEST
Yep.
Matt LiebHOST
And that
Kate HergottHOST
Yes,
Patricia Knight MeyerGUEST
and as does Gabor Mate writes a lot about this because he was one of those infants that got taken from his mother during the war.
Patricia Knight MeyerGUEST
Oh, and he writes a lot about, about that.
Patricia Knight MeyerGUEST
Yeah,
Lilith Primrose ValentinHOST
course.
Lilith Primrose ValentinHOST
And as a kid, I think, you know, what is it that thing that Gabor Maté says where it's like the child will not sacrifice connection to a parental figure? Yeah.
Lilith Primrose ValentinHOST
So the child will put their own needs aside in order to remain in connection and contact to a parental caregiver figure.
Lotte ValentinHOST
Yes, because belonging is the most important thing because we're human and we need to belong to the tribe.
Jon SwalesHOST
Fear not.
Jon SwalesHOST
It comes from a book by a guy called Gabor Maté.
Jon SwalesHOST
It's like French, isn't it? mate give our mate let's call him that and he wrote a book called in the realm of hungry ghosts which is a really good book about exploring addiction and seeing that behind the the addict behind it sometimes the the problems that come in the lives that have been torn apart there's a story of hurt and wounded people I like the book, brilliant book, but I love the title.
Jon SwalesHOST
It just got me thinking.
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