Elizabeth Blackburn On The Health Effects of Stress - AARP We've studied moms of children who were chronically ill and postmenopausal women who were taking care of a family member In both groups, the worse the stress was — and the longer they felt it — the more their telomeres wore down
ELIZABETH BLACKBURN - NobelPrize. org Along with similar studies of spouses of those with chronic dementia and in people who suffered early trauma, the results were clear: the more chronic stress one suffered, the shorter one’s telomeres
Elizabeth Blackburn, PhD - Aging, Metabolism and Emotion Center Blackburn earned her B Sc (1970) and M Sc (1972) degrees from the University of Melbourne in Australia, and her Ph D (1975) from the University of Cambridge in England She did her postdoctoral work in Molecular and Cellular Biology from 1975 to 1977 at Yale
Too toxic to ignore - Nature A stark warning about the societal costs of stress comes from links between shortened telomeres, chronic stress and disease, say Elizabeth H Blackburn and Elissa S Epel
Stress and Longevity - EmpowHER To find out, Blackburn and Epel put together a pioneering study with a group of mothers who were the caregivers for severely disabled children with a chronic illness Clearly, this is a role that is known to cause severe stress
Accelerated telomere shortening in response to life stress Women with the highest levels of perceived stress have telomeres shorter on average by the equivalent of at least one decade of additional aging compared to low stress women