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Your Mood Edits Your Genes
Blackburn found that emotions — from chronic stress to awe — can alter gene expression. Within hours, your body begins switching certain genes on or off, especially those related to inflammation, immunity, and aging.
What we think and feel is not abstract — it becomes biology. Our minds are constantly writing molecular instructions to the body.— Elizabeth Blackburn
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Nobel Prize-winning molecular biologist
Elizabeth Blackburn is a Nobel laureate who co-discovered telomerase, the enzyme that replenishes telomeres. Her research revealed how lifestyle and stress affect aging at the cellular level.
Based on Elizabeth Blackburn – The Science of Cells That Never Get Old (TED, 2017), summarised and reframed by Insights.
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