UCSF Professor Elizabeth Blackburn explores the effects of aging on a cellular level. Series: Osher Lifelong Learning Presents [7/2008] [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 14535]
Elissa Epel, UCSF Department of Psychiatry explores the connection between stress, eating and cellular aging. She and her colleagues have found that the cells of high stress individuals appeared older than the cells of those with low stress. These findings have implications for understanding how, at the cellular level, stress may promote earlier onset of age-related diseases. Series: “UCSF Mini Medical School for the Public” [2/2008] [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 13721]
We are all looking for ways to reduce our stress. Would you believe repeating a word or phrase could do the trick? Join Jill Bormann, PhD, as she explains mantram repetition and her research showing this is an effective portable stress buster that can be easily used to calm the body and mind. Mantram is the Sanskrit term for a short, sacred word or phrase that is repeated silently in the mind resulting in stress reduction. Series: Sam and Rose Stein Institute for Research on Aging (SIRA) [5/2009] [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 16036]