…His books, all Canadian bestsellers, include Scattered Minds, a look at the origins and healing of attention deficit disorder, When the Body Says No, the Cost of Hidden Stress, Hold On to Your Kids, Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers, which…

…matter of fact, I've told this story many times, but five years ago, I was in London giving a talk on my book, When the Body Says No. And I was very articulate and adept on stage, but personally, I was irritated. I was working too hard. I was driving…

…not kind to my wife. And she said to me, her name is Ray. And she said, buddy, you've written a book called When the Body Says No. Now you better write one called When the Wife Says No. And, you know, so part of what's helped me drop these patterns,…

…matter of fact, I've told this story many times, but five years ago, I was in London giving a talk on my book, When the Body Says No. And I was very articulate and adept on stage, but personally, I was irritated. I was working too hard. I was driving…

…kind to my wife. And she said to me, her name is Ray. And she said, buddy, you've written a book called When the Body Says No. Now you better write one called When the Wife Says No. And that can be very helpful. There's free meditation instruction on…

…of illness, addictions and disorders, and in their healing. Dr. Maté is the bestselling author of four books, When the Body Says No, Understanding the Stress-Disease Connection, Scattered, How Attention Deficit Disorder Originates and What You Can Do About It,…

…Gabor Maté, Canadian physician and writer, Dr. Maté came on Democracy Now! this year to discuss his book When the Body Says No, Understanding the Stress-Disease Connection. Based on medical studies and his own experience with chronically ill patients at the…

…to restore their own health. Dr. Gabor Maté, the Vancouver-based physician and bestselling author of four books, When the Body Says No, Understanding the Stress-Disease Connection, Scattered, How Attention Deficit Disorder Originates and What You Can Do About…

…more in-depth biography because she's good at researching. So he's the author of three books that you should check out. When the Body Says No, The Cost of Hidden Stress, and then Scattered Minds, A New Look at the Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit…

…I mentioned, I've written a number of books, and this particular one on the mind-body unity is in this book called When the Body Says No. And my contention is, based on my experiences, Before I worked in addictions, I was in family practice for 20…

…creating. And we'll have him featured in a documentary, the stuff we're doing with Artists for Addicts. Your books, you know, When the Body Says No, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, Scattered. I know you have a new book coming out. In my head, yes. In…

…who has written several bestselling books, including In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, Close Encounters with Addiction, When the Body Says No, Exploring the Stress-Disease Connection, and Scattered Minds, the Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder. So I…

…syndrome, multiple sclerosis and arthritis. Dr. Garbamate is a best-selling author of four books in Canada, including When the Body Says No, Understanding the Stress-Disease Connection. His latest book is in the realm of hungry ghosts, close encounters with…

…been translated into more than 30 languages. Those books include In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, Close Encounters with Addiction, When the Body Says No, The Cost of Hidden Stress, and what we're going to be talking about today, which is Gabor's new book.…

The book, When the Body Says No by Gabor Maté explains how chronic stress is often linked with disease and how reducing this stress involves examining the biological, psychological, and social factors in your life. Basically, it's not enough to know how…

…health. Well, so one of the books I've written, which will be published and written in a few months, is entitled When the Body Says No, The Cost of Hidden Stress. And I'm making the case, precisely as I heard you articulate just now, is that when…

…last year, and that's the one, it's not the most recent one actually, but the one that Moses alluded to, is called, When the Body Says No, The Cost of Hidden Stress. And it's based simply on my observation in my practice as a family physician, and also…

…and over again. And these were a great difficulty saying no to other people's emotional demands. Hence the title of my book, When the Body Says No. Because my thesis is that when you don't know how to say no, the body will say it for you, you know,…

…actually be causing your physical symptoms and chronic pain? That's the theory behind the work of Dr. Gabor Maté and his book When the Body Says No. Today I'm going to share with you a story from this book about being too good. And if this is something…

…appropriate support. So for those people suffering from endometriosis or fibromyalgia, I really urge them to read my book, When the Body Says No, because my contention is that their disease, so-called, is actually the body saying no to stresses in their…

Hey, so today we continue to review the wonderful, amazing book of Dr. Gabor Maté, When the Body Says No. And he talks about several wonderful topics in this part of review. And we start with the topic of cause and effect. Western medicine has multiple…

…have that one too. and another one called The Body Keeps the Score by a trauma psychiatrist. And then there's my book, When the Body Says No. First of all, it really comes down to how you see human beings. Do you see them as the medical ideology sees…

…people and you're always helping people. You never say no. And the book of mine that this talk is based on is entitled When the Body Says No. My contention being is if you don't, the body will say it for you. I may have said that before. So, what…

…busy, right? So just saying no is going to help us get present, perhaps. And as you know, I've written a book called When the Body Says No, and where my contention is that if we don't know how to say no, the body will say it. Yeah, we get sick,…

…what happened to you in life. In fact, I know a rheumatologist here at UCLA who, having read my book, When the Body Says No, which is about the mind-body connection and health and illness, started asking patients about their life histories and traumas and…

…it because nobody in medical school talks about this. So I'll tell you an interesting story. When I was writing, When the Body Says No, I went to the cancer agency in British Columbia, which is the provincial cancer treatment facility. And I went to…

…said to me, I don't know if I told you this before, but she said to me, Buddy, you've written a book called When the Body Says No. Now you better write one called When the Wife Says No. Because I'm not putting up with this anymore, you know? She had…

…including and especially for my wife. And so my wife said to me, literally she said, buddy, you've written a book called When the Body Says No, and you better write one called When the Wife Says No. And my good fortune has been to be married to…

…Look, I just, believe me, my wife's in the audience and she once said to me, buddy, you've written a book called When the Body Says No. No, you better write one called When the Wife Says No. Precisely for the same reason. That's so good. That's so…

…in my life, what should I do? What would you say? Well, read my books. Actually, I did mention a book I wrote called When the Body Says No, which is the whole point, is that when you don't say no, the body will say it for you in the form of…

…was here with me. And it was crazy busy. I was overworking. And she said to me, buddy, you've written a book called When the Body Says No. That's one of my books, When the Body Says No. And she says, no, you better write one called When the Wife…

…overworking. And she said to me, buddy, you've written a book called When the Body Says No. That's one of my books, When the Body Says No. And she says, no, you better write one called When the Wife Says No. Because she wasn't going to put up with…

…which then makes it more likely that disease will appear. And as a matter of fact, In one of my books, it's called When the Body Says No, and I make this some point in myth or normal. When people don't know how to say no, the body will say it…

…discuss that who gets sick and who doesn't isn't accidental. Can you expound on that a bit? Well, in my book, When the Body Says No, which explores the stress-disease connection, I interviewed a lot of people with illnesses, and I also drew upon my own…

…emotionally on a day-to-day, moment-by-moment basis also has a huge significant impact. So that's what I concentrate on in When the Body Says No, is our emotional relationship to ourselves, because that's the hidden one. The book, when it originally came out…

…to ourselves, because that's the hidden one. The book, when it originally came out in Canada, the subtitle was So When the Body Says No, The Cost of Hidden Stress. That, to me, is a more accurate title. The American subtitle is Exploring the…

…career. That's changing, he said. But it's still difficult. You know how difficult it is? I wrote this book called When the Body Says No back in 2003 about the mind-body unity in health and illness. There's a rheumatologist at UCLA. who read the book,…

…some of that research in The Myth of Normal. And I wrote about it previously in a book of mine called When the Body Says No. The research is not even controversial. Most physicians don't hear about it. Now, what is the connection? The connection is very…

…you. So those are huge impacts. And in the long term, people that don't say no, I mean, I've written a book called When the Body Says No, in the sense that if people don't want to say no, their bodies will say it in the form of illness. And…

…has written several best-selling books, including In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, Close Encounters with Addiction, When the Body Says No, Exploring the Stress-Disease Connection, and Scattered Minds, the Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder. Gabor,…

…New York Times bestseller, The Myth of Normal, the award-winning Realm of Hungry Ghosts. Close Encounters with Addiction, When the Body Says No, The Cost of Hidden Stress, and Scattered Minds, The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder, which I…

…taking on too much? Typically the answer is yes. Absolutely. So I've written a book came out 20 years ago called When the Body Says No. And it's about chronic illness, like autoimmune disease and so on. And what I'm saying is that when you don't know…

…can turn it around. But anyway, the point is, my wife said to me five years ago, buddy, you've written a book called When the Body Says No. No, you better write one called When the Wife Says No. Oh, I like that. I'm not putting up with this work all…

…heard a podcast. That's fascinating. She agreed that it was fascinating and promptly suggested that the next book I read would be When the Body Says No. So I live abroad, and I was getting ready to travel to the U.S., where I'm from, and I took the…

…creating. And we'll have him featured in a documentary, the stuff we're doing with Artists for Addicts. Your books, you know, When the Body Says No, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, Scattered. I know you have a new book coming out. In my head, yes. In…

…of illness, addictions and disorders, and in their healing. Dr. Maté is the bestselling author of four books, When the Body Says No, Understanding the Stress-Disease Connection, Scattered, How Attention Deficit Disorder Originates and What You Can Do About It,…

…Originates and What You Can Do About It. When we come back, a third interview with Gabor Maté about, well, When the Body Says No. Stay with us. We'll be right back. AMY GOODMAN. This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. I'm…

…Gabor Maté, Canadian physician and writer, Dr. Maté came on Democracy Now! this year to discuss his book When the Body Says No, Understanding the Stress-Disease Connection. Based on medical studies and his own experience with chronically ill patients at the…

…to restore their own health. Dr. Gabor Maté, the Vancouver-based physician and bestselling author of four books, When the Body Says No, Understanding the Stress-Disease Connection, Scattered, How Attention Deficit Disorder Originates and What You Can Do About…

…in the realm of hungry ghosts close encounters with addiction scattered minds the origin and healing of attention deficit disorder When the Body Says No, The Costs of Hidden Stress, and Hold On to Your Kids, Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers, and…

…maybe there's something to be learned here. Now take a very famous British example, and I talk about him in my book, When the Body Says No. I'm having an old age moment here. The great physicist who had ALS. Come on. Okay, give me a sec. Okay. It'll…

…of South Africa, there was a very interesting study I ran across when I wrote a previous book of mine called When the Body Says No on the mind-body connection. This is in South Africa. It showed that when black people leave their villages and go into…

…do you know of any research, like, looking... Looking at that kind of thing? Oh, yeah. There's a book of mine called When the Body Says No, in which all this is laid out in great detail. It just went out of print in the United States yesterday. I…

…selling a lot of copies. But you can get them on Amazon.ca, the Canadian website of Amazon. Amazon.ca. It's called When the Body Says No. The book was published 10 years ago now, and yesterday it showed up again on the Canadian national bestsellers list.…

…it's not this inherited disease, but a response to the environment, and it can be healed that way. My book, When the Body Says No, The Relationship Between Stress and Illness, Emotional Stress and Physical Illness. My book on addiction is called In the…

…stood up by herself for the first time in six months. And that began her journey. Now, she also read my book, When the Body Says No. That's where she got in touch with me. And she's been on many healing journeys since. She's had physio. She's had more…

…put tremendous stress on individuals. It's very stressful to live like that. That's why my book on this topic was called When the Body Says No, The Cost of Hidden Stress. The stress that people are not even aware of. Now, these are not inborn traits.…

…creating. And we'll have him featured in a documentary, the stuff we're doing with Artists for Addicts. Your books, you know, When the Body Says No, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, Scattered. I know you have a new book coming out. In my head, yes. In…

…matter of fact, I've told this story many times, but five years ago, I was in London giving a talk on my book, When the Body Says No. And I was very articulate and adept on stage, but personally, I was irritated. I was working too hard. I was driving…

…not kind to my wife. And she said to me, her name is Ray. And she said, buddy, you've written a book called When the Body Says No. Now you better write one called When the Wife Says No. And so part of what's helped me drop these patterns, and I'm…

…Ghosts? That's right. Yeah, which is an amazing book. So if you want to go deep into on addiction, Gabor's written When the Body Says No, Scattered, and then I think it's called Scattered Minds in Canada. Yeah, this is my book on ADHD, which is my…

…major contributing factor that's utterly ignored in Western medicine despite reams of evidence. And that's the subject of my book, When the Body Says No. But the first book I wrote... So what I'm saying here is that when there's a loss emotionally, that…

…the relationship of stress and illness. His books include In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, Close Encounters with Addiction, When the Body Says No, The Cost of Hidden Stress, Scattered Minds, the Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder, and Hold on…

…Dr. Maté. My name is Jesse. Thank you for this opportunity. I would like to thank you for writing your book, When the Body Says No. At 12 years, I joined a gang, became addicted to alcohol and drugs, and went to juvenile detention centers, and at…

…people, and you're always helping people. You never say no. And the book of mine that this talk is based on is entitled, When the Body Says No. My contention being is if you don't, the body will say it for you. I may have said that before. So, what…

…and helpful presentations on stage to hundreds of people. One of the books I've written specifically on this subject is called When the Body Says No. And my contention being is that when you don't know how to say no, your body will say it in the…

…programmed difficulty asserting yourself. So when the body says no. My wife said to me, buddy, you've written a book called When the Body Says No. Now you better write one called When the Wife Says No. Because I'm not putting with the study. And what…

…stress or depression have to do with the kid's lungs? Well, they were confused only because they hadn't read my book, When the Body Says No, where I talked about this stuff seven or eight years ago, because it's not new information. It's just that the…

…studied by hundreds of therapists, physicians, counselors, and others internationally. His books include In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, When the Body Says No, Scattered Minds, and with Dr. Gordon Neufeld, Hold On to Your Kids, Today, Dr. Gabor Maté is with…

…Maté has written several best-selling books, including the award-winning In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, Close Encounters with Addiction, When the Body Says No, The Cost of Hidden Stress, and Scattered Minds, A New Look at the Origins and Healing of Attention…

…health. Well, so one of the books I've written, which will be published in Britain in a few months, is entitled When the Body Says No, The Cost of Hidden Stress. And I'm making the case, precisely as I heard you articulate just now, is that when…

…Well, you said all the world. In fact, it's been published only in North America. Really? Some of my books, like When the Body Says No, has appeared in 25 languages. But this one has been published only in North America in my home country of Hungary.…

…or crisis in our lives, and then we have to start wondering, well, who are we anyway? So you wrote a book called When the Body Says No. And I was talking to a friend last night, we were having a drink, and we were talking about why it's so hard…

…I mean, he was a pioneer when I was totally a novice to this whole subject. Then I did publish a book called When the Body Says No. And what happened was, is that out of the blue, you contacted me. And you asked me to write a preface to one…

…written, which is a perennial bestseller, it's called The Body Keeps the Score, my various books, The Myth of Normal, When the Body Says No, Scattered Minds, my book on addiction, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, but other books by People that I've learned…

…me tell you a story. There's a rheumatologist at UCLA, University of California, Los Angeles, who read my book, When the Body Says No. And she realized that these autoimmune conditions have everything to do with people's emotional lives. And she started…

…getting better, but it's still really, really difficult. And a book I wrote, which has been published in Greece, When the Body Says No, a rheumatologist at University of California, Los Angeles, read the book in which I point out the relationship between…

…where I begin. In my new book, The Myth of Normal, I explain this in much greater detail than I do in my book, When the Body Says No. And the reason for that is I wrote When the Body Says No, which I think is full of great information, and I still…

…in much greater detail than I do in my book, When the Body Says No. And the reason for that is I wrote When the Body Says No, which I think is full of great information, and I still completely stand by everything I said. But I know a little bit…

…without addressing the body. So there's, because like Bessel van der Kolk's book, The Body Keeps the Score, or my book, When the Body Says No. manifesting an illness, the body does keep the score so that the trauma is held in the organs, in the viscera,…

…his hometown of Vancouver, British Columbia. His books include The Realm of Hungry Ghosts, Close Encounters with Addiction, When the Body Says No, Exploring the Stress Disease Connection, Scattered, how ADD originates and what you can do about it. And with…

…develop an autoimmune condition or something like cancer. And he goes, I learned that a lot before I wrote the book, When the Body Says No. And so I shared that with you, and I believe there's something. Now, if I believe cancer... in many diseases,…

…who didn't. Interestingly enough, in writing this book, and this lecture of mine is based on my book, When the Body Says No, Exploring the Stress-Disease Connection, and I understand that there might be some copies over here. Interestingly enough, American…

…seminal. And the thinking of the book, In the Realm of the Hungry Ghosts, and also a book he wrote called When the Body Says No, takes the conversation around addiction to an even deeper level of root cause, and that has to do with trauma. You…

…of the body in trauma? Yes, the question of what happens in the theater of the body. Again, Bohr in his book, When the Body Says No, really talks a lot of this kind of expression, how it comes out in these specific syndromes and symptoms and and…

…the implications of trauma on culture. And he's written multiple bestselling books, such as In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, When the Body Says No, Scattered Minds, just to name a few. And his new book, The Myth of Normal, which I absolutely adore and…

…Sure. Let me just preface it by saying that this relates to a book that I mentioned in the beginning called When the Body Says No, which I pointed out that the people who develop autoimmune disease and malignancy, as I said earlier, are people that…

…apparatus and the nervous system and the gut and the cardiovascular system. So I've written a book about that. It's called When the Body Says No, The Cost of Hidden Stress, which will be published here in the UK next year. You keep writing these books,…

…the award-winning In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, I highly recommend, subtitled Close Encounters with Addiction, and When the Body Says No, Exploring the Stress-Disease Connection, and Scattered, How Attention Deficit Disorder Originates and What You Can Do…

…after hold on to your kids, but to me it absolutely did lead. to all the problems that you start to elucidate in When the Body Says No, which I guess was about the same time in publishing. That came out a little bit before Hold On to Your Kids. It…

…some people say is the most definitive description of what addiction feels like and what it does. Also, When the Body Says No, exploring the stress-disease connection. And... Scattered, How Attention Deficit Disorder Originates and What You Can Do About It.…

…fact, my wife, Ray, who you met only four years ago, five years ago, said to me, buddy, you've written a book called When the Body Says No. Now write one called When the Wife Says No. Right. Okay. Because of my workaholism. So I get it. I really get…

…I also was working with women with breast cancer. And so I wanted to hear his approach that way and with references to When the Body Says No, his other book. And I videotaped, or my son videotaped most of those talks that he did. And then I could see…

…Maté, he is a physician and a very accredited author of four books, Scattered Minds, which is about attention deficit disorder, When the Body Says No, The Cost of Hidden Stress, Hold On to Your Kids, Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Their Peers, and…

…so that really what was going on is that your body was saying no when you weren't. Exactly. That's the title of my book, When the Body Says No. If we don't say no, the body will say it one way or the other. And the question is, are you going to…

…to inform practitioners about the mind-body unity. Let me give you an example. I think the second book I wrote is called When the Body Says No, which is about the mind-body unity. When people don't know how to say no, they take on too much, their body…

…I did a lot of listening to them in their last days and weeks of life. One story that I tell in my book, When the Body Says No, is about A man who was the head of a company that sold shark cartilage as a treatment or prevention for cancer. That's…

…did addiction medicine, I noticed that who got sick and who didn't wasn't accidental. That's the subject of my book, When the Body Says No. And then again, in the myth of normal, people tended to be compulsively concerned with the emotional needs of…

…subscribe button. Do we have a deal? You always worry for the very nice people. Yeah. You talk a lot about that in When the Body Says No. Yeah. Why is being nice a potential risk to one's health Well, there's two places to be very nice from. One is…

…in medical school. But the research is there. And I present it in my books. In any case, when I was writing When the Body Says No, a self-help group of multiple sclerosis patients phoned me and said, would you come and talk to us? Because I understand…

…health. Well, so one of the books I've written, which will be published in Britain in a few months, is entitled When the Body Says No, The Cost of Hidden Stress. And I'm making the case, precisely as I heard you articulate just now, is that when…

…of topics from addiction, stress, to childhood development. He is somebody that has written multiple best-selling books, such as When the Body Says No, Scattered Minds, and In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts. He is somebody that has a profound understanding of…

…health. Well, so one of the books I've written, which will be published and written in a few months, is entitled When the Body Says No, The Cost of Hidden Stress. And I'm making the case, precisely as I heard you articulate just now, is that when…

…ours. When we don't get that, we become people pleasers. And let me tell you, I've written a book called When the Body Says No, and it's all about how these people, these chronic people pleasers who suppress themselves to please others, that's the source…

…a spate of workaholism on my part, not that long ago, Ray said to me, listen, buddy, you've written a book called When the Body Says No. Now you better write one called When the Wife Says No. Because I ain't putting up with this anymore. So it's good…

…trip. You want me to speak up? Is that it? Okay. I remember being in Toronto back in 2004, I think, when my book, When the Body Says No, was published. And it was just on the eve of the bombing of 2003, I forget which year. It was on the eve of…

…their immune system, on their hormonal apparatus, on their nervous systems as well. And that book is called When the Body Says No, Exploring the Stress-Disease Connection. And that's been published in over 20 countries internationally as well, including in…

…their immune system, on their hormonal apparatus, on their nervous systems as well. And that book is called When the Body Says No, Exploring the Stress-Disease Connection. And that's been published in over 20 countries internationally as well, including in…

…their immune system, on their hormonal apparatus, on their nervous systems as well. And that book is called When the Body Says No, Exploring the Stress-Disease Connection. And that's been published in over 20 countries internationally as well, including in…

…site. He's written several best-selling books, including the award-winning In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, Close Encounters with Addiction, When the Body Says No, The Cost of Hidden Stress, and he's co-authored Hold On to Your Kids. And all of his books are…

…them. Can you speak about that, please? Well, dementia is the result of lifelong suppression. I have a chapter on that in When the Body Says No. I'm not suggesting that it can be reversed or that I would know how to do that. What I'm suggesting is…