Mixed feelings on this one, but overall positive. The book can be boiled down to: chronic emotional repression is sufficiently stressful to increase the risk of physical disease (probably by triggering inflammation). It's a difficult thesis to prove and Gabor does a thorough job collecting evidence and I think I ultimately agree. That said, something just fell a bit short for me.

I was a huge fan of the realm of the hungry ghosts, which told amazing individual stories and paired those with science and advice. One shortfall of When The Body Says No was that the structure as a bit circular and repetitive. Chapters on healing were sparse and underdeveloped, which chapters of each disease references each other and all followed a similar structure.

While this is worth reading, I don't recommend this as a first foray into Dr Mate's writing. I think I would most recommend this to those of you who, like me, need a reminder to actually feel and express your "undesirable" feelings.