12.05.2017

Elizabeth Blackburn : The science of cell that never get old

TED 2017
Elizabeth Blackburn : The science of cell that never get old (transcript)
Summary
This is a happy news that women don't need money to stay young.
According to the speaker’s study, our telomeres could stay longer for longer periods of time, it leads to extending our feelings of youthfulness. A telomere is a compound structure that is an enzyme at the end of a chromosome. Chromosomes break down when cells divide and telomeres replenish the caps the end of them. To shorten our telomeres is aging. We have to avoid it. In fact, it turned out that by feeling stress, telomeres became shorter.
However, we can maintain our telomeres if we are resilient to stress. 1)
When you don't think that stress is a threat but you think that it's a challenge, it doesn't damp down your telomeres. 2)
The study also showed that by avoiding outside factors such as violence, bullying, racism, and wars were important to keep telomeres.  3)
We will understand that aging is created by our own hands. When our actions change, our telomeres stay longer and we live long beautifully.

Words in this story
telomere /tɛ́ləmir/
chromosome /ˈkɹoʊməˌsoʊm/
replenish /verb/ fill (something) up again.
resilience /noun/ the ability of a substance or object to spring back into shape; elasticity.
resilient /adj/
resistance /noun/ the refusal to accept or comply with something; the attempt to prevent something by action or argument.
resist /verb/ withstand the action or effect of.

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