Early Quote by Elizabeth Blackburn

Chronic emotional stress shortens your telomeres.

— Dean Ornish

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

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 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

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

Being ill-prepared and unequipped to deal with life's inevitable challenges leaves us vulnerable to the dangerous effects of stress.

— Amy Morin

Kissing can help manwomen relax and ease the effects of stress

— Anonymous

Well, much of my research over the years has been on stress, and the adverse effects of stress on the health of the central…

— Robert Sapolsky

I think it's worth trying to do something about obvious sources of stress in your life. But even more important is learning and practicing…

— Andrew Weil