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Stress Will Make You Grow Older Faster

Although the findings by researchers from the University of California at San Francisco are somewhat technically complicated, in short, they found that stress causes pieces of DNA cells called telomeres to divide faster, which results in premature biological aging.

So who do you sample for such research?

…researchers looked at 58 mothers. Among those, 39 had a chronically ill child that required intense care giving. The remaining 19 mothers had healthy children and made up the study’s control group.

And cutting to the chase…

According to the research team, prolonged stress can add 10 or more years to the biological age of cells.