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Telomeres have been called "cellular clocks," in that they are a measure of biological rather than chronological age. Two people, even identical twins, could be the same age as computed in years, months, weeks, and days, yet one may be biologically older than the other, depending on how much stress, adversity, or trauma they have endured. That's because stress shortens telomeres.
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I should emphasize that mothers aren't alone in transmitting chronic disturbances of the body's stress apparatus to their young. In one experiment, healthy male mice were vexed by a series of stressors: frequent cage changes, constant light or white noise, exposure to fox odor, being restrained in a small tube, and so on. They were then mated with non-stressed females who provided their pups with perfectly good mothering. Their young showed impaired stress-response behaviors and blunted stress hormone patterns. In other words, despite the mothers' best efforts, the fathers had transmitted the disturbing effects through their sperm. In humans, paternal stress early in a child's life can also have long-term effects, into adolescence at the least. Adversity among both mothers and fathers bear "reliable linkages" to the epigenetic profiles of the children, a group of researchers concluded.
The recently deceased Buddhist monk and renowned spiritual leader Thich Nhat Hanh long taught the concept of "inter-being." It's not merely that we are, he said: we "inter-are." "There are no separate entities," he wrote, "only manifestations that rely on each other to be possible." Again, we would be quite mistaken to relegate these observations to the realm of mystical belief. A scientist lacking a spiritual bone in his body, yet conversant with the growing body of evidence, would nod in agreement: "Yup. that about covers it."
Given their vulnerability and dependence, children's physiology is especially susceptible to the emotional states of their caregivers. Young kids' stress hormone levels, for example, are heavily influenced by the emotional atmosphere in the home, whether outright conflict or bristling tension. Asthma is a well-studied example: the inflammation of the child's lungs is directly affected by the mother's or father's emotions. In the words of a recent review: "It has been consistently shown that parents in an unfavorable mental health state such as 'depression, 'anxiety,' 'stress,' or 'chronic irritation' may predict a poorer status for the child's asthma.
Again, it's all one: emotions affect nerves and vice versa; nerves act on hormones; hormones on the immune system; the immune system on the brain; the brain on the gut; the gut on the brain; and all of these act on the heart, and vice versa. In turn, our bodies influence our brains and minds and, necessarily, the brains, minds, and bodies of others.