Intergenerational trauma, inflammation and disease with Dr Carolyn Ross

Dr. Carolyn Ross is our guest on the show today, who specializes in working with patients from an integrative medicine approach, incorporating trauma history, eating disorders, body image work, and clinical symptoms. On today’s episode we’ll be discussing the impact intergenerational trauma and childhood adversity have on inflammation, disease, and the development of disordered eating, emotional eating, binge eating and eating disorders. We highly encourage you to check out the new book she contributed to – Treating Black Women with Eating Disorders: a clinician’s guide. With the help of many clinicians and research, the book digs into how racism and intergenerational trauma can contribute to the development of body image struggles, disordered eating and eating disorders in black women.

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Episode timestamps:

1:00 – Recommendations, updates & a call for questions for next week’s episode!
4:45 – Interview with Dr. Ross

Bio: Dr. Ross came from a family of business entrepreneurs. Her grandfather was a physician who, because of Jim Crow laws, was unable to use the local hospital, so he built his own hospital and with her grandmother, started a nursing school to train Black nurses. Her mother also was a business owner of multiple businesses. From her family’s history of successful business owners, she went into medicine, and founded three women’s health centers in San Diego, offering general medicine and office gynecology for women. Dr. Ross was named “San Diego Business Woman of the Year.” She later went on to do consulting work at eating disorder treatment facilities which is what led her to found The Anchor Program. Dr. Ross is board certified in Preventive Medicine and Addiction Medicine.

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