Quartz reported on UBC research that connected childhood trauma to early cellular aging.
Lead author and UBC kinesiology professor Eli Puterman found that adults who experienced childhood stress seemed to have an increased risk of shorter telomeres, the structures found at the ends of a person’s chromosomes.
This in turn is linked to increased risk of illness and early death in adulthood.
The study authors said “that the shadow of childhood adversity may reach far into later adulthood in part through cellular aging.”
A similar story appeared in International Business Times.
