The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Trauma and Adversity—A Transformative Guide to Understanding Childhood Trauma and Health

by Nadine Burke Harris

Chronic exposure to stress hormones can suppress the immune system in some ways and activate it in others, and unfortunately none of it’s good. Stress can lead to deficiency in the part of the immune system that fights off the common cold, tuberculosis, and certain tumors.