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I wish Maté would also make more conclusions about how greater societal norms effect stress. For example in the chapter about breast cancer he notes women with malignancy were often suppressing anger and other negative emotions. However, he doesn't mention that in a patriarchal society this is how women are expected to act. It would have been an interesting conclusion to show that misogyny is basically killing us
— Dec 01, 2025 11:27AM
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Another annoyance: Maté frequently states that the evidence that established treatments for diseases like cancer are helpful is "ambivalent at best" (his words) yet is presenting a book where the medical evidence for his thesis is also basically nonexistent
— Dec 02, 2025 10:35AM
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It's kind of insane of Maté to suggest that Gilda Radner, who had an extensive family history of cancer, really died of ovarian cancer because of childhood trauma. All while using evidence seemingly only taken from her wikipedia page rather than anything clinical or scientific.
— Dec 02, 2025 05:26AM
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Idk if I agree with Maté's hypothesis that stress is causation of illness rather than just causing the onset of symptoms. I think a lot of these people were probably going to get MS even if they were in the happiest of situations, stress just made them more aware of the symptoms
— Nov 30, 2025 08:43AM
