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Re: sit down, relax, chill out--stress response encourages metastases (can be blocked
Hi all
I have been really interested in reading all the comments and tend to agree in the main.One of the areas that interests me is whether childhood chronic stress may later result in a vulnerability to cancer. We know now that genes switch on and off and are not static as once thought. A number of years ago I attended a lecture by an American neurologist who believed that chronic childhood stress left a footprint in the cell memory which later got re-triggered if persistent adult stress happened. He speculated that this resulted in biochemical changes which may allow cancer to grow. Thought this was an interesting concept!
Ellie
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