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Subject: Stress Speeds Up Aging Author: Betty [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 15:46:27 11/30/04 Tue In reply to: Betty 's message, "no no no, you can have her, she's too fat for me" on 10:16:27 03/10/04 Wed Stress Speeds Up Aging, Researchers Confirm Long-term stress can make people sick and grow old before their time, according to a new study that has identified the first direct link between stress and aging, the Washington Post reported Tuesday. Constant stress seems to speed up the shriveling of genes inside cells that naturally occurs during the aging process, according to scientists at the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF). If the small study's results are confirmed in larger trials, it would represent the first confirmation at the cellular level that chronic stress accelerates the aging process, the newspaper reported. Advertisement Lead researcher Elissa Epel, a UCSF psychiatrist, and her colleagues studied 39 women ages 20 to 50 who suffered chronic stress because they had been caring for a chronically ill child. The researchers studied telomeres, which are caps at the ends of chromosomes that naturally get shorter and shrivel as cells age and continue to divide. The scientists concluded that chronic stress appears to speed up this process. A key factor appeared to be women's perceptions of how stressed they were. Those who professed to be under the most stress had telomeres equivalent to someone 10 years older, the researchers said. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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