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Have you ever wondered why some sixty-year-olds look and feel like forty-year-olds, and why some forty-year-olds look and feel like sixty-year-olds? More importantly - can you choose which outcome will happen to you? Written by Nobel Prize winner Elizabeth Blackburn and health psychologist Elissa Epel, The Telomere Effect reveals the ground-breaking science at the heart of ageing - and what you can do to help reverse it.

While many factors contribute to ageing and illness, Elizabeth and Elissa's award-winning research has revealed that the length of our telomeres - the part of our chromosomes which determine how fast our cells age and die - can have a direct effect on how quickly or slowly we age.

In this pioneering book, discover for the first time the many simple changes you can make to your diet, sleep and mental wellbeing to look after your telomeres. From which foods to eat, types of exercise to practise, various mind tricks to prevent stress - and how to shield your children from developing shorter telomeres from conception through to adolescence - start protecting your telomeres and your youth today.

Table of Contents

Authors' Note: Why We Wrote This Book xv

Introduction---A Tale of Two Telomeres 1 (18)

PART I TELOMERES: A PATHWAY TO LIVING YOUNGER

 

Chapter One How Prematurely Aging Cells Make You Look, Feel, and Act Old

19 (23)

Chapter Two The Power of Long Telomeres

42 (12)

Chapter Three Telomerase, the Enzyme That Replenishes Telomeres

54 (17)

Renewal Labs: A Guide

67 (4)

PART II YOUR CELLS ARE LISTENING TO YOUR THOUGHTS

 

Assessment: Your Stress Response Style Revealed

71 (3)

Chapter Four Unraveling: How Stress Gets into Your Cells

74 (26)

Chapter Five Mind Your Telomeres: Negative Thinking, Resilient Thinking

100 (38)

Assessment: How Does Your Personality Influence Your Stress Responses?

127 (11)

Chapter Six When Blue Turns to Gray: Depression and Anxiety

138 (23)

Master Tips for Renewal: Stress-Reducing Techniques Shown to Boost Telomere Maintenance

153 (8)

PART III HELP YOUR BODY PROTECT ITS CELLS

 

Assessment: What's Your Telomere Trajectory? Protective and Risky Factors

161 (11)

Chapter Seven Training Your Telomeres: How Much Exercise Is Enough?

172 (16)

Chapter Eight Tired Telomeres: From Exhaustion to Restoration

188 (19)

Chapter Nine Telomeres Weigh In: A Healthy Metabolism

207 (17)

Chapter Ten Food and Telomeres: Eating for Optimal Cell Health

224 (31)

Master Tips for Renewal: Science-Based Suggestions for Making Changes That Last

243 (12)

PART IV OUTSIDE IN: THE SOCIAL WORLD SHAPES YOUR TELOMERES

 

Chapter Eleven The Places and Faces That Support Our Telomeres

255 (25)

Chapter Twelve Pregnancy: Cellular Aging Begins in the Womb

280 (14)

Chapter Thirteen Childhood Matters for Life: How the Early Years Shape Telomeres

294 (33)

Conclusion---Entwined: Our Cellular Legacy

319 (8)

The Telomere Manifesto 327 (2)

Acknowledgments 329 (4)

Information about Commercial Telomere Tests 333 (4)

Notes 337 (44)

Permissions 381 (4)

Index 385 (12)

About the Authors 397