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Podcast 455: How to turn stress into strength in 7 days

CLEANING UP YOUR MENTAL MESS with Dr. Caroline Leaf

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What's the Relationship Between Stress and Resilience?

In the first study, we looked at mothers of typical children and mothers of children with some type of chronic condition medical or an autism spectrum condition. And in that study, we did find that it wasn't so much being a caregiver that mattered, but the perception of stress. Feeling overwhelming daily stress whether you're a caregiver or not was associated with shorter telomeres,. dampened levels of telomerase  and higher levels of oxidative stress or free radicals in the blood.

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