Lynn Malcolm
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10,377 appearances
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first heard Feb 2006
last heard Dec 2020
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Професор Аллиса Епл афор Професо Амет Бернстен.
Both were guests at the twenty nineteen Happiness and Its Causes conference in Sydney.
First, to a recent scientific understanding of how we can live younger, healthier and longer.
In 2009, Elizabeth Blackburn, along with graduate student Carol Grider, was one of the first Australian women to win a Nobel Prize.
Her work showed that in single-cell organisms, chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase.
So what are telomeres?
Alyssa Eppel is Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California.
Alyssa Eppel is also a health researcher and has been fascinated by how the body is affected by the way people think, behave and live.
She teamed up with Professor Elizabeth Blackburn to co-author the book The Telomere Effect, which describes how the original research on telomeres applies
So what are the factors that determine the length of the telomeres and can that be changed?
And is there anything about the way we perceive stress or the way we perceive our lives that influences the telomere length?
And it's also been found that meditation can influence the length of telomeres.
What's understood about the mechanism that actually stops the telemes from getting any shorter with meditation?
So what do you think is the most important area of research to pursue now in the future regarding telomeres?
You're with All in the Mind on RN.
I'm Lynn Malcolm.
Through science and practice, the Emerging Minds Lab in Tel Aviv is dedicated to helping those who struggle and suffer to live better lives.
Amit Bernstein is passionate about applying their work to what he describes as a global mental health crisis amongst refugees and asylum seekers.
Amit Bernstein is also personally moved by this crisis because his mother was a refugee, a survivor of the Holocaust.
Around seven years ago he became aware of the large group of forcibly displaced African asylum seekers in Israel.
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