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Doris Taylor — Stem Cells, Untold Stories

On Being with Krista Tippett

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The Effects of Stress on Stem Cells

There's science out there from some one of the some of the best laboratories in the world showing that stress ages your stem cells. Cancer is nature's attempt to replenish that stem cell pool as we get older and if something goes bad then you get a tumor. I have absolutely no data to support this but this is one of those gut things that I'll be looking at over the next few years.

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