California Quote by Elizabeth Blackburn

Chronic emotional stress shortens your telomeres.

— Dean Ornish

Observational studies show that exercise, nutritional supplements and reducing psychological stress can help. Chronic high stress and smoking can lead to accelerated telomere shortening.

— 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

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

This enzyme, called telomerase, slows the rate at which telomeres degrade, and research indicates that healthy people with longer telomeres have less risk of…

— Elizabeth Blackburn

“It turns out that our perspective has a surprising amount of influence over the body’s stress response. When we turn a threat into a…

— Dalai Lama XIV

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

“In just a few decades, dramatic changes have occurred in our relationship to stress. There are many illnesses that are now associated with stress—and…

— Henry Emmons

I made some studies, and reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it. I can take it in small…

— Jane Wagner

“A large percentage of what we think of when we talk about stress-related diseases are disorders of excessive stress-responses.”

— Robert M. Sapolsky

Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it

— Anonymous

“How you view your stressor is just as important as your actual circumstances when it comes to long-term effects on your health and happiness!”

— Melanie Greenberg