From The Three T's: Trauma, Toxins, and Thoughts
Ten questions. For each, choose the response that fits most honestly — not the one you wish were true, but the one that reflects your actual experience. There are no wrong answers.
Your result points to the driver most active in your body right now, and to where in the book to start.
Trauma, toxins, and thoughts are the three drivers at the center of The Three T's: Trauma, Toxins, and Thoughts. Trauma covers what happened to you — a collision, a loss, a sustained period of fear — and how it resets your nervous system's baseline. Toxins covers the burden your body carries from what you breathe, eat, drink, and live alongside. Thoughts covers the patterns of belief and self-talk that shape how you interpret your own symptoms.
The book's argument is that these are not three separate problems. Trauma changes how efficiently your body clears toxins. Toxic burden changes how your brain generates thoughts. Thought patterns change how deeply your nervous system holds trauma. They form one system, which is why treating any of them in isolation so often fails.
It identifies which of the three drivers appears most active for you right now, and points you to the chapters that address it first. That is its only job. It tells you where to start reading — not what is causing your symptoms.
Your answers are tallied across ten questions. The highest count is your suggested starting point. If two drivers tie, both are active and you can read either section first. If all three are close, the book is meant to be read in order.
Dr. Jennifer Davis, DC, DACBSP, ICCSP, is a sports medicine chiropractor with more than fifteen years of clinical practice, focused on athlete longevity, injury prevention, and women's sports medicine. She served as a medical provider at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games, is Global Director of Performance Medicine at RH7 Sports and Director of Sports Medicine at Élevé Health, and founded Kaizen Chiropractic in the Bethesda, Maryland area. The questions here are taken directly from the assessment that opens her book.
No. This is an educational tool, not a medical assessment. It cannot diagnose a condition, rule one out, or identify the cause of any symptom you have. Ten questions cannot account for your history, your examination findings, or your laboratory results.
If your symptoms are severe, worsening, or new, see a qualified healthcare provider. Use your result as a starting point for reading and for a conversation with your clinician — not as a substitute for either.
Dr. Jennifer Davis, DC, DACBSP, ICCSP
Your result
The body does not heal in parts. Trauma affects how you process toxins. Toxins affect how your brain generates thoughts. Thoughts affect how deeply your nervous system holds trauma. All three are one system.
Get your reading plan by email, along with the chapter guide for your primary driver.
This assessment is educational and is not a diagnosis. It does not replace evaluation by a qualified healthcare provider. If your symptoms are severe, worsening, or new, speak with a clinician.
Adapted from The Three T's: Trauma, Toxins, and Thoughts by Dr. Jennifer Davis, DC, DACBSP, ICCSP.