Chronic emotional stress shortens your telomeres.

Exercise mitigates the effects of stress - and stress, we know, shortens telomeres. In fact, early studies indicate that stress reduction techniques like meditation…

— Elizabeth Blackburn

Telomeres are the ends of our chromosomes that control how long we live. As telomeres become shorter, then cells age and die more quickly.…

— Dean Ornish

Tuesday night I reorganized my record collection. I often do this at periods of emotional stress. There are some people who would find this…

— Nick Hornby

Multinational food companies can play a large role in helping to prevent chronic diseases around the world by offering healthier choices in the United…

— Dean Ornish

When we forgive someone, it doesn't excuse their actions; it frees us from our own chronic stress and suffering, so it's in our own…

— Dean Ornish

In 2004, results from a study that I worked on with colleagues at the University of California, San Francisco, linked chronic stress to shortening…

— Elizabeth Blackburn

For me, arguably the story of telomeres and telomerase began thousands of years ago, in the cornfields of the Maya highlands of Central America.

— Elizabeth Blackburn

“People who exercise more and sleep better have longer telomeres.”

— Stefan Klein

In humans, the thing is that as we mature, our telomeres slowly wear down. So the question has always been: 'Did that matter?' Well,…

— Elizabeth Blackburn

Basically, when you look at different types of cells, such as fibroblasts, which form connective tissue, or epithelial cells, from saliva, you see general…

— Elizabeth Blackburn

In my lab, we're finding that psychological stress actually ages cells, which can be seen when you measure the wearing down of the tips…

— Elizabeth Blackburn

Cancer cells have had so many other things go wrong with them, genetic, non-genetic changes, that those cells, one of the things they then…

— Elizabeth Blackburn

Telomeres are the protective caps at the ends of chromosomes in cells. Chromosomes carry the genetic information. Telomeres are buffers. They are like the…

— Elizabeth Blackburn

There is a lot of new research about how stress hormones affect your body and how you can work on giving your body as…

— Ane Brun

“Sokolov was favorable impressed by the fact that he had not yet shit his pants. Men always made crude jokes about people pissing their…

— Neil Stephenson