Destiny: Michael J. Menard: Greater Than Gravity, How Childhood Trauma is Pulling Down Humanity

Summary

In 'Greater Than Gravity', Michael J. Menard reveals that childhood trauma is leading to 889 deaths in America daily, a figure obscured by medical terminology that masks the true impact of trauma-related fatalities. Menard argues that many deaths classified as heart disease, addiction, or suicide are actually trauma deaths. This groundbreaking insight proposes not just managing but entirely ending childhood trauma as a solution to a national epidemic.

Key takeaways

• 1889 Americans die daily from trauma-related causes, more than accidents and diseases combined.
• 289% of teen suicide attempts are linked to childhood trauma.
• 385-100% of addiction patients have histories of trauma.
• 4The annual cost associated with trauma exceeds $14 trillion.
• 5Michael Menard was named VP of engineering for Johnson & Johnson after a successful corporate career.
• 6He created fourteen patents, including infant disposable diapers with elastic legs.

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Transcript excerpt

Welcome to Destiny. Now here's your host, Cliff Dunning. All right, we're into February already, my friends. Yeah, I mean it's like blink of an eye, January is gone. It's really for me and I live in San Francisco, so we're a multi racial area, San Francisco Bay Area, and so I'd really like to follow the Chinese New Year. It just feels more natural because Christmas just is such a blistering you know, it's like get the gifts, go and meet people, celebrate, drink too much alcohol, eat too much sugar. It takes time to recover, really takes time to recover. So Tuesday, February seventeenth is the Chinese New Year. It's the fire Horse. Go look it up, Go do a search for a Chinese astrology, and one thing you'll find is it's much more accurate. And I don't know it's because they used the constellations or rather than just the planets, or they've been doing it for a lot longer than these Western astrology. I just have more. I have more. I just like it. It seems to be more in line with my lifestyle. And so New Year's is in February for me I get two New Years. I get January first of twenty twenty six, and then I get February Tuesday, February seventeenth. And we have a large community, so there's a couple of different parades. You know. I used to love it as a kid because that's when they would light off what I thought were illegal fireworks, but they allow them. They allow the parade audience as well as the participants with the floats and everything to shoot off fireworks. So it's gonna be happy New Year's. Also, I'll let everybody know Happy New Year's on the seventeenth. ...

Excerpt from Earth Ancients, Feb 4, 2026. Rights remain with the original creators. Hear the full episode at the source.