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  1. haidut

    Childhood Stress / Deprivation Leads To Early Puberty / Aging

    The evidence that adult health problems have their roots in childhood or even prenatally continues to accumulate. The study below demonstrates that children who have experienced violence, trauma, deprivation or have had generally stressful childhoods not only enter puberty much earlier but are...
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    • adversity aging childhood deprivation early puberty stress violence
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    • Forum: Scientific Studies
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    The Government Knows Stress Causes "learned Helplessness" / Depression

    I have had discussions with numerous psychiatrists about the concept of "learned helplessness" (LH) and its relation to chronic stress. All of those doctors flatly denied that LH is a concept relevant to humans and argued that it is nothing more than a useful model of depression in animal...
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    • adversity cia depression dsm environment government learned helplessness stress
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    • Forum: Scientific Studies
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    Chronic Stress (adversity) Lowers Dopamine And Causes Mental Illness

    The evidence for the role of chronic stress in virtually every health condition doctors have a name for just keeps on accumulating. Unfortunately, even in this latest study the scientists keep insisting that there is some mysterious and unquantifiable difference between chronic stress...
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    • adversity anxiety cause chronic stress cortisol depression disease dopamine mental disorder mental illness pathology psychosis ptsd schizophrenia serotonin suicide
    • Replies: 5
    • Forum: Scientific Studies
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    Lifespan / Longevity May Be Tied To Environmental Conditions

    While I do not agree with the main assertions of the author on "rate of living" theory, he does make a few very important points, including the vital importance of mitochondria and metabolism for evolution and lifespan. Also, he lists a few examples of species where lifespan doubled simply...
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    • adversity evolution lifespan longevity metabolic rate metabolism mitochondria ros
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    • Forum: Scientific Studies
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    Tough / Rough Childhood Shortens Lifespan By Up To 75%

    The study was done with baboons, but given how closely related they are to humans I think the results are a lot more pertinent than rat stress studies, which btw have been shown to translate pretty well to humans. A wild baboon usually lives for up to 45 years. So, the fact that some of the...
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    • adversity childhood healthspan lifespan rough short tough
    • Replies: 32
    • Forum: Scientific Studies
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