The Sled
Through a recent series of events I've become aware of a study about adverse childhood experiences called the ACE's study. This was a research study conducted by Kaiser and the CDC starting in the 90's that revealed there was a strong correlation between a child’s exposure to traumatic experiences—including psychological, physical, and sexual abuse, or living in a violent or unstable household—and their likelihood of developing certain diseases in adulthood, including cancer, chronic lung disease, heart and liver disease. Also, these adverse childhood experiences are very common. It's groundbreaking, in my opinion, to learn this. Without a doubt, there is a biological connection between early adversity and physical health later in life. There is a questionnaire you can take to find out how many ACE's you have and I promptly did just that. Now, unsurprisingly to me, I do not have a single one on the list of 10 possible adverse childhood experiences. I...