Discover how your emotions and physical health are more connected than you think. Explore how stress, trauma, and even your daily mood can directly influence your metabolism, immune system, and long-term well-being. From childhood experiences to everyday anxiety, your emotional state can quietly shape your body's response to the world.
Dive into the importance of emotional health before and during pregnancy, the hidden impact of mental toxins like social media and negativity, and how your body stores unresolved trauma. Mental wellness isn't just about feeling better it's about living longer and healthier.
Highlights of the Podcast
00:05 - Emotions and metabolism are connected
03:54 - Emotional state impacts physical health
05:46 - Childhood trauma influences long-term health
07:20 - Mental health work is essential, especially before pregnancy
12:07 - Control what you mentally consume
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:00:05] So we want to go back through the mind body connection and kind of take it just another step forward. Um, this is, so this is kind of the stuff I talk about when I teach, uh, or when I work with, uh mental health providers, or whether they're NLP or whether there, um, you know, you know normal therapy, psychotherapy, counselors, that sort of thing. Um, so we need to understand that our, our chemistry or our tablism. and our emotional state are directly linked. So you can look at it as a big circle. I've seen them depicted as like an infinity symbol. Yin-yang, which is the yin-yang is probably more apropos because it's also the way that we visualize quantum coupling. Or... Yeah, that's the quantum entanglement. So what you have to understand is, and this is a great way to explain it. So, you know, when I say that your emotions and your metabolic function or your biochemistry are intimately linked and that they are indistinguishable from each other at a certain point. We've all seen it. Like it's one of those things that when I tell people this, when we get done with it, people are like, I knew it. So think of it this way. We've always seen this. Have you ever seen, or maybe you've been hangry where your emotional state is radically affected by your hunger. So you have a metabolic need and you have not fulfilled that metabolic need. And so you end up getting grouchy and angry and short and pissy and all those things. And then you eat. and you're back to your normal happy self. So these are things we've seen personally.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:01:55] So we can see that there are metabolic functions or times in your metabolic biochemistry world where you can directly tie them to emotional feelings. The other one that we do is, and maybe less of you have noticed this one. You can walk into a room of like 30 year olds and say something like Jägermeister and a decent amount of them will go, I just got a little nauseous. So again, you know, it's one of those things that our emotional state directly transfers to our physical state where we hear something that's tied to a time where we maybe had a little too much and it makes us still a little nauseous, tequila can sometimes do the same thing. Just saying the word tequila to some people. So these are things that we can recognize that are there. Now take that a step further. So if we know that our emotional state is directly tied to our biochemical state from a hangry standpoint, what we also have to understand is that the inverse is also true. So our emotional can then dictate or alter our metabolic state. Uh, and I think that this is pretty easy to understand when someone gets mad or happy or in love. or whatever, you can see it on them. The way that they're holding themselves, the way they're carrying themselves, the way that throw their brow. All these things happen and there's no real, you might not even be aware of it. Or you might be aware of it but there's nothing you can do about it, right? So, you know, that's also a piece. And we also know that, you now, the way we expel energy, is different when we're super angry or when we are super depressed or something like that. So people will talk about how they get hot. Like I'm just steaming up. I'm super hot. Like they can feel it. Like they'll start sweating because they're so angry or they're so, like, uncomfortable. Right.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:03:54] So obviously, our emotional state dictates or can alter, have a significant effect on our emotional. Taking up a significant event on our physical state. I don't think these are things that I'm telling you. So you're like. my gosh, this is groundbreaking stuff. What we need to recognize is if you carry that forward just a little bit more and you say if you're always in this negative state, if you are always allowing these things to eat at you, if you're in a bad spot, it will end up, it can end up leading to physical disease, cancers, heart attacks, stroke, ulcers. These are things that we've had significant evidence of this. So This is one of the things where we talk about, you know, getting everything in the body, everything where it's supposed to be. Then one of most important things we've got to do is work on mental state, you if you're still having issues that you've had from childhood from when you were two or three, and this is the weirdest stuff, like, you a lot of times, if you go and you tell somebody, this is, this is what's been messing me up. This is what going on for a long, long time. You know, this the reason you'd go. I can understand how that caused a problem, but it's not really that big of a deal because you're an adult, your, your ability to understand and comprehend and deal with emotions and deal, with situations is obviously different when you're 22 or 32 than it was when you were two. So we have a lot of this early childhood trauma that carries forward and if we don't do the right things to remediate it and, you know, counseling is an option. Um, psychotherapy is an I prefer the NLP work that actually working on the subconscious where the problem actually is where the root of the problem is, which is in the subconscious, uh, using things like timeline therapy with NLP and stuff like that. That's my preferred method. Um,.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:05:46] However, you know, however you're going to deal with those, you need to deal with those. You need to dig those things out because if you don't dig those things out, they're gonna, they are seeds and they're going to grow weeds in your garden. If you will, they'll start messing with you in some way as long the line. If you look at, you know, there's just more evidence of this. If you at a lot of the people who have depression, anxiety, schizophrenia, bipolarism, those sort of things, what you will find a lot a criminality, what you find is that if you track it back, a lot of these people, if not all of them had what we consider significant early childhood trauma. And so what I'm basically doing is I'm saying a lot of this early childhood, trauma that was not resolved. altered the actual metabolic function over time to the point where now we have metabolic diseases. We have, you know, weight issues. We have depression issues. We have the bipolarism, we have the schizophrenia. Um, and these are, this, this stuff is becoming more, that, that thinking is becoming and more and more mainstream as the pharmaceuticals start to lose some of their luster, uh, the idea that I'll just take a pill and everything will be okay. Is that starting to, we're starting to come out of that, uh. Haze out of that. thinking and started looking at other things like diet and like, you know, actually working on our mental health instead of just here, take this pill. You'll be fine. Um, this thing's on people who are taking pills and getting resolution for their mental, mental stuff. Uh, it is not very good. So we're going to have to start looking at the things.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:07:20] Diet is obviously my diet and, and working on it, you know, talk therapy, NLP, obviously the ways that I, I, I would lean on to, to get these things resolved. not just covering up the symptoms and hoping people shut up and go away with pharmaceuticals. This is some of the things that we're talking about when we're looking at being healthy. This is also one of those things that I'm making the big push. We really need to start working with our younger women, our teenagers, our 20 year olds, you know, the women, you know right before they decide to get pregnant and give birth because the emotions and the chemicals that are in the mom. while she's developing the baby are going to have a significant role in how the baby is developed. Um, I was, you know, I work with, and this is the coolest stuff I get to work with people from different backgrounds. You know, my psychiatrist and psychologists and counselors and therapists and, you, know, NLP coaches and business coaches, like everybody, like I always sit down with them. I'm like, tell me your stories. Tell me, tell, tell the things that are cool that have happened. One of the, one of the things that one of, the NLP practitioners that I was working with, uh, they were telling me a story about how this person had significant anger issues their entire life. And when they were going through NLP work, where they found out, because one of things that you asked her in what we call timeline therapy is, was this before, during, or after birth. And, uh. The thing that created all the anger and this person said before, which is weird, but okay, this happens a decent amount.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:08:57] And when they traced it back, what they found out was that, uh, the anger that they, that this person received was during pregnancy, like while mom was pregnant with baby, and so this person goes back and asks the mom, they're like, was anything going on while you were pregnant? And she was like, why do you ask? And she's like, because as I went through this process, what I found out is that a lot of my anger issues somehow stemmed from when you were pregnant and she goes. is what is like, well, your birth father was abusive and I hated him. I was angry within the entire time I was pregnant. She was like, and then we dissolved it like when you were young and. That's what happened. And, but she was super angry the entire time she was pregnant and that gave this person lifetime of anger issues. So, you know, these are the type of things that we're trying to kind of see as you develop a child and you're guilty. If you, if you feel a lot of guilt, if you feel out of shame, if feel out of anger, if they feel a lot of anxiety. You know, if you feel like there's no one there to help you, like these, these, emotions, these feelings are constantly going through your head, they're not just going through your head. They're going through the baby as well. Because again, these are hormonal functions. These are energetic functions. These are however you want to look at it. Like your entire being feels this. And if you're growing a new being inside of you, it's going to be affected by this as well You know, these are the things that we need to start to recognize and start to clear before we start getting pregnant with your or guard against while we're pregnant. Otherwise we're going to have issues with these children, these kiddos that we don't know where they came from.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:10:31] We don't how they're dealt with, you know, so this is not just a clear the obvious chemical don't eat the, you know don't need the poison food. You know don' drink a bunch of alcohol. Don't smoke a whole bunch of cigarettes while you're pregnant. We've kind of that that information is kind of got But if we don't start taking care of everybody from a mental state, from an emotional standpoint, before and during pregnancy, we're still going to be having a lot of issues with babies as they come out. And the reason that this is becoming even a bigger issue is because, you know, if you look back, you know, one of the things we, we talk about is the chemicals. And again, I'm 100%, you know for cleaning up the chemicals and, you know looking at the vaccine issue and calming that down. However, we need to do that. But one of other things we've started to do over the past 40 years, when we look at our overall. physical and mental health that we haven't discussed is we have more access to all the terrible things in the world. So the amount of fear, the amount, uh, anger, the amount of, you know, guilt and the like, all the negative emotions that are news and our social media is pumping into us on a daily basis and in escape, inescapable function that we can't get away from. That is altering us as well. Remember your diet is more than what goes in your mouth. It's what you consume. So it's what's you read. It's, what you see, it's, but you hear, you know, it was you talk about with your friends. And when your friends are always talking about all these horrible things, you know, whether it's the economy doing these things or it's, you, this genocide in the Middle East or the, you know, or slave trade and in Africa or, you know, whatever things you can't deal with, you can, you know, affect, but are still highly negative. These things are affecting us. Um,.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:12:07] And so we need to start either finding a way to off, let these things, or we need to stop bringing them in. Uh, which are both great because this kind of goes back to the whole idea of, you know, it's like, it' like, we have mold toxicity. People are like, how do you fix it? And I'm like, well, the first thing I do is I get rid of the mold because we don't want to continually poison ourselves while we're trying to de-poison ourselves or detox ourselves. So one of the great things to do. And again, I realized how hard this is shut off. Some of the news that's coming in, you know? If you can't, if you can deal with it, maybe it's not something you need to put in your, in your middle space. So if you, can't help the people who are in collapse building on the other side of the world, maybe that's a little bit of trauma and fear that you don't necessarily need to deal with. So these are some of the things we're kind of looking at, but we need to start recognizing that our emotional state is directly tied to our biochemical state or metabolic state and thus our physical health state. The more we can start to kind of understand that these things are directly tied, the easier it's going to be for us to start working on those things. I mean, look at all the stuff we found out. Oh, microplastics are bad. And so we're, oh, we're going to get away from those, you know? And you know, fluoride is bad or we're gonna get away from that, you now, and so we've found out all these chemicals that are bad and all these chemicals that are good and like a processed foods are terrible. Eat the stakes like they're great for you.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:13:26] Cholesterol is actually really good for you, okay? So we started to figure that out and oh my gosh, look, we are getting so much healthier. Like the diabetes is going away. Like people are losing weight. Like they're getting more energy. There's sex drives coming back from eating real food. Like they are getting healthy from eating real food And that's a hundred percent of fact that we need to make sure that we get, we keep doing that, but we also need to not lose sight of the idea that if we don't start taking care of our mental emotional state, we're still going to have all of the metabolic issues. We're still gonna have the cancers. We're starting to have the mental health issues. We're sort of gonna have all these things because our mental and our metabolic states are directly linked. So we need start focusing on the whole person and start working on the emotional piece, not just the biochemical piece. So if you guys are doing great with your diet and all that other stuff and you're working out. biochemistry is getting really, really good, a hundred percent. Start thinking about your mental piece.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:14:14] Now here's the other side of that. Fixing your diet will help your mental space tremendously. So we need to do both, but we need a recognize both of the things we need work on. So if you guys have any questions about that, you know, reach out, find a counselor, find a therapist, reach up to the office. I've got a bunch of NLP guys we work with. Um, NLP is my preferred way of dealing with some of this mental health stuff, at least the primary function. because I believe that, you know, the things in, you know, timeline therapy and working on parts and stuff like that, uh, is a much, much faster, much more, uh much more. It's more effective, it's a faster, more effective more efficient treatment protocol. However, talking to people is super critical. So if talk therapy is working for you, keep at it. But if you guys have any questions to this up, questions@chalmerswellness.com or drop us a DM, talk to you guys there. Thanks for your time.
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