Dr. Gabor Maté: Full Interview with George Stroumboulopoulos

The Strombo’s Lit book club joined George and Dr. Gabor Maté to hear his fascinating take on a trauma, creativity and our toxic world.
After two decades as a family physician and seven years working in palliative care, Gabor Maté spent 12 years as a staff physician at a supportive housing facility in Vancouver’s downtown eastside.
Today, Gabor is internationally renowned for his compassionate and subversive expertise on addiction, trauma and stress. He’s distilled his thoughts in three internationally-renowned books on stress, ADHD and the root causes of addiction.
In his fourth book, The Myth of Normal, co-written with his son Daniel Maté, he says humanity’s tendency to exploit and extract is a coping response to an oppressive system where capital drives us toward an aimless, unsustainable future. Without a seismic shift, Maté expects our crises only to get worse. But yet he remains optimistic.
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Edited by ‪@NathanSing‬
From the 1-2-3-4 to the 808's and beyond. Radio, television and digital. For over two decades, George Stroumboulopoulos has been playing the best records in the best order. Finding those songs that'll get you through the night. Interviews, intimate sessions and out-of-its-mind full-blown house concerts. The Strombo Show and House of Strombo reflect the beautiful and the badass of Canada's diverse cultural landscape. There are no boundaries, with the gamut running from Aretha Franklin to Slayer and everything in between.
Some of the wonderful people who have been on the show include international artists like A.R. Rahman, Against Me!, Alice Cooper, Ani DiFranco, Anthrax, Beastie Boys, Bjork, Bonnie Raitt, Charles Bradley, The Cult, De La Soul, Diana Krall, Dinosaur Jr., Dolly Parton, Elvis Costello, Ghostface Killah, Grandmaster Flash, James Hetfield of Metallica, The Kills, Little Stevie Van Zandt, Loretta Lynn, Maynard James Keenan of TOOL, Megadeth's Dave Mustaine, Missy Elliott, Mix Master Mike, Moby, The National, Neko Case, Patti Smith, Queens of the Stone Age, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Robbie Robertson, Robert Plant, Saul Williams, Slowdive, Steve Earle and Vampire Weekend; Canadian talent such as A Tribe Called Red, Alexisonfire, ARKELLS, BadBadNotGood, Barenaked Ladies, Blue Rodeo, City And Colour, Coeur de pirate, Death From Above 1979, Gordon Lightfoot, Joel Plaskett, Rheostatics, RUSH, STARS, Tegan & Sara and The Tragically Hip; emerging acts that include Courtney Barnett, Dilly Dally, Father John Misty, Jazz Cartier, Kate Tempest, Leon Bridges, Lowell, The Lemon Twigs, Margo Price, Pussy Riot, Sampha and The XX.

[@nassrin]

Gabor Mate has grasped these concepts and understands them on a different level

[@Sanpablo147]

Hey Strombo, I have watched literally dozens of interviews with Dr. Mate and this is easily the best. You're so normal and natural and relaxed. You asked him everything a normal person would ask him. And you clearly read the book and did your homework. Great questions. Thank you so much.

[@ruthgrace4965]

I totally agree

[@abeach5420]

Absolutely.... 'our' genuine George as always in all ways.

[@diamondkitchen2370]

Watched this interview several times, every time I do, I gain another nugget of truth. Incredible

[@lynnwhittaker7420]

Dr Gabor Mate is a wise compassionate man The Book everyone should read

[@sunnysunnydays]

Big fan of Gabor’s wisdom 🙏🏽👏👏

[@evaarnold5838]

Dr Gabor is by far my favorite interviewee, his vast knowledge and compassion rise above the norm. Loved this!❤️ Thank you Stromboli! My first with you, very interesting!

[@TheStromboShow]

Happy to have you along for the ride!

[@abeach5420]

@@TheStromboShow So very genuine George....you being nothing but your very self. So blessed to have followed you throughout alllll these years. True Canadian and deserving of your very own interviewing show here or anywhere once again. Hope this finds you very well in a 'time of times' !!

[@ruthgrace4965]

Hello George, this was a great interview and you are responding to Gabor's chill energy and are being very open. It's the only interview I've enjoyed listening to and I have watched many

Great interview....Thank you for sharing

[@FelixOlschewski]

Fantastic. Thanks for sharing this.

[@dianneschmid8129]

The world is blessed with people like u both 🌼🍀🌼🍀Life is absolutely about respecting ine self 🫠how refreshing to be guided 🙏❤️thank u Dr Gabor Mate and George Strombo🕊being born to Greek parents has given me my own challenges of which I always share 🌞yasas blessings ☀️

[@sadd8766]

Fantastic interview, the sound quality is not great at points but the information given during the interview was amazing!

[@TheStromboShow]

We're working on it! Thanks for watching 😊

[@rythmhawk2598]

This person needs to come to Greece and talk about this subject. This is how our everyday life is here. Especially if you work in Greece.

[@Caperhere]

His books are for sale, and he has talks on KZbin.

[@efortune357]

Some Notes and Quotes: 4:25 “When I was researching the relationship of stress to cancer, because I began to notice in my own practice that people who develop malignancy, often they had traumatic childhoods. I didn’t know what the link was. I just saw the relationship. So I went to the office of the British Columbia Cancer Agency, which is the local cancer treatment center, and I went to the head of the psychology department and said ‘I’m researching the relationship of stress and cancer.’ She said, ‘We don’t believe there’s a relationship.’ So, then I went up to the library where there were hundreds of studies on the relationship of stress and cancer. What I’m saying is that I just discovered all this science and in fact, there was so much science, and since then so much more science, that my problem in this book was not to say too much, because when Daniel and I first wrote the book, this is a hefty book, as I think you’ve noticed, 500 pages. The original manuscript was double this length, because there was so much information, and our task was to cut it in half and still make the points in a readable fashion. But there’s so much information now. That’s what’s so astounding to me, well it isn’t anymore because I’ve dealt with it. The average medical doctor never hears this stuff. Never hears anything about it even though it’s been published in all kinds of major medical and scientific journals.” 6:05 study: woman with severe PTSD has double the risk of ovarian cancer and the milder the PTSD symptoms the less the risk of cancer. 7:05 Study from Sweden. Depressed woman increases chance of premature birth. If father is depressed it increases even further the chances of premature birth. Casue the woman in this culture absorbs the stress of the men. *9:20 “We descending into greater suffering and chaos, have tech but well-being is plummeting ***16:00 insecurity , loss of control, lack of info: triggers for stress, inflammation, risk factor of a disease. Modern, (16:45) Michael Marmot, the greater the inequality in a society the more disease. These are the modern conditions. (17:55) “In the short term acute stress helps you survive. In the long term chronic stress thins your bones, puts fat on your bellies so there’s more risk of heart disease, makes you depressed undermines the immune system, and increases the risk of heart disease and diabetes. Is all stress bad? No. An acute stress response is essential for survival. Chronic stress threatens survival. 21:30 Rheumatoid arthritis, Indigenous women 6x as much due to racism, colonialism etc, (21:55) NY Times, article, black women, even rich, birth outcomes are worse, social problem, social answers Individual levels, how we interpret the outside world affect on us 26:50 The depressed brain 35:20 Compassion vs Empathy? ***44:40 “People who are traumatized, especially young children that are traumatized, they develop a shame based view of themselves. So they think there’s something wrong with them. Cause the child doesn’t know how the world should be. For the child it’s easier to believe that there’s something wrong with me because then if I work hard enough I can do something about it. But if I believe that the world is a terrible place, and everybody’s against me, and my parents are useless, that’s unbearable for the child. So, it’s actually protective for the child to believe that there’s something wrong with them. Strange, but that’s how it works.” ***45:45 Creativity and Artists, Trauma? Connection? No.

[@chowter]

Excellent info!

[@Caperhere]

Grief and sadness are natural, but we have traditionally had support systems to help process them.

[@kforest2745]

I’d like to see him step out of the box.

[@roryteal5940]

I really appreciate Dr.Gabor Mate and his perspective but i would take anything from the NY Times with a grain of salt because they lie effortlessly and endelessly. I also aporeciate his Son and Investigative Journalist Aarron Mate.

[@robynhope219]

He keeps talking about "toxic world"...what else is new? The world was ALWAYS toxic, always will be as long as they're ppl in it😢

[@OliverNowack-pq9lu]

Bitte fördern und liebe grüße Olli

[@camillegratton7262]

[@iangawn2]

🐘

[@Caperhere]

Here’s the full show: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rqbZc2Chn5qirqM

[@mennofennema9829]

you look like drunk Paul Rosenmoller