Dr. Elissa Epel and Nobel Laureate Dr. Elizabeth Blackburn: Stress, Resilience, and Healthy Aging
Commonwealth Club of California Podcast
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The Role of Stress in Aging
When telomeres run down in immune cells, they also make cells not function so well and put out more inflammatory signals. We know the types of stress that really do wear down these cell aging systems. Early life adversity, particularly in a dose response fashion, early trauma, when we're children, or even severe stress to a pregnant mother predicts short telomeres in the offspring. It's also true that in some studies, chronic stress is...
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