Eli Puterman, a UBC kinesiology professor and co-author of a study on the connection between aging and trauma, spoke to CTV’s Your Morning.
Puterman explained that telomeres protect chromosomes from unravelling, which causes cells to age and die faster.
“You can think of [telomeres] as the plastic tips at the end of shoelaces that protect the rest of the shoelace from fraying,” he said. “What’s important as an adult is realizing that we need to take care of the trauma in our minds in order to be able to cope with events a little bit better.”
