The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Trauma and Adversity—A Transformative Guide to Understanding Childhood Trauma and Health

by Nadine Burke Harris

Blackburn and Epel looked at how food, exercise, and even mental focus affected the health of telomeres. But to me, the most interesting part of what they found was that stress had a major impact on the length and health of telomeres, and that in turn had a major impact on the risk of disease.