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Stress aging until a decade
Stress and aging
In the privacy of sensitive genetic mechanisms governing cell division and multiplication, scientists first found evidence that the anticipated stress aging.
The finding of the neuroendocrinology laboratory at the University of California shows that an accumulation of stressful situations can add many more years to the DNA of a person than his actual chronological age.
The scientists found that blood cells from women who had spent most of their lives caring for a disabled child were, genetically speaking, a decade older than the same cells of those mothers who had less time in the same difficult task.
The study, which appears in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, also suggests that the perception of being stressed can add years genetic biological age of a person.
Though doctors have linked chronic psychological stress to weakened immune function and increased risk of infection, still trying to understand how that tension damages and weakens the body’s tissues.