Dr. Elissa Epel
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first heard Nov 2024
last heard 23 Jun
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If we are living a lifestyle of chronic stress, we tend to become numb to the feelings and thoughts of stress and to the body signals.
We don't read them anymore.
But if we can turn on the light of awareness, the beauty of feelings of stress is that they are absolutely malleable and we can change our physiological stress as well as our emotional stress within five minutes.
Yes.
So the telomere is this structure made of base pairs.
It sits at the ends of chromosomes and it protects them.
So telomeres are one of our many biological clocks.
And they do shorten as cells divide over time, but they also shorten based on the level of wear and tear or stress, physiological stress in a cell.
We statistically can say with confidence, shorter telomeres predicts more likelihood of early disease, early mortality, slower wound healing.
And when we first started studying telomeres,
We did this calculation where we know exactly how many base pairs we lose per year.
And thus we can quantify how much extra aging or additional base pairs people lose when they're under chronic stress.
And that's how we came up with that statistic that there was 10 additional years of aging in terms of the immune system.
But our lifestyle changes actually can...
boost this protective enzyme that can lengthen telomeres.
And so if you study someone over time, you actually see that they're much more dynamic and that nothing is determined or written in stone.
And any time in life, any day, we can start to reverse damage and boost all of the restorative enzymes and processes in the cell and lengthen our telomeres.
Absolutely.
And it's not just that we're not experiencing stress, but when we put ourselves into a state of rest,
And even more so deep rest.
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