From The Three T's: Trauma, Toxins, and Thoughts
Your symptoms tell a story. Find the chapter where yours begins.
Answer ten thoughtful questions to discover which of the book's three themes — trauma, toxins, or thoughts — may be the most useful place to begin reading.
There are no wrong answers, and your responses stay in your browser. Your result is an educational reading path, not a diagnosis.
This assessment may be for you if…
You have tried multiple approaches, but still do not know which part of your health story deserves attention first.
Your symptoms feel interconnected, crossing physical, environmental, mental, or emotional lines.
You want a practical way into the book, rather than another label or one-size-fits-all answer.
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What are the Three T's?
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.
What does this assessment do?
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 themes tie, you can read either section first. If all three are close, the book is meant to be read in order. This informal assessment is an educational reading guide, not a validated diagnostic or screening tool.
Your result is a reading path, not a diagnosis
Trauma suggests that past stress or trauma may be relevant to how you are feeling and offers a starting point for reading and reflection.
Toxins suggests that environmental, dietary, or lifestyle exposures may be an area to explore with an appropriately qualified professional.
Thoughts suggests that thought patterns and ongoing stress may influence how you experience and respond to symptoms.
Who created it?
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.
Is this a diagnosis?
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.
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How this result was calculated
Each answer corresponds to one of the book's three themes. The theme selected most often determines the suggested reading path. This informal educational assessment is not a validated diagnostic or screening tool.
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.
Continue with the full framework
Explore the chapters behind your suggested reading path in The Three T's: Trauma, Toxins, and Thoughts.
Get the bookThis 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.