# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gabor-mate
# Generated: 2026-09-01T04:25:46.728Z

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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born in January 1944, Gabor Maté built a career in family practice before narrowing his lens to childhood development and the long fuse of trauma. He began connecting dots others left scattered: how early pain might later show up as autoimmune disease, cancer, ADHD, addiction. His model of substance use disorder centers emotional injury, not vice, treating recovery as a return to the original hurt. Five books followed, each pressing the case that stress and developmental fracture shape adult health in ways medicine often misses. Some critics question how far his framework stretches and whether the evidence keeps pace. The work persists at the edge where neuroscience, psychology, and lived suffering meet.