Exposure to Violence Alters Children’s DNA, Life-Long Health
April 24, 2012
In a sample of 236 children recruited from the Environmental-Risk Longitudinal Twin Study, researchers from Duke University and King’s College London found that children who had experienced two or more kinds of violence exposure showed significantly more telomere erosion between the age-5 baseline and age-10 follow-up. Telomere erosion is a putative link between stress and cullular aging, a mechanism for long-term impact on disease and mortality.
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How are they studying these traumatised children? Aren’t they exposing them to even more stress? It sounds like these scientists are treating them as mere objects.
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I think this article is only presenting a part-truth. That is violence and stress shorten telomere. It’s the same old blame it on on what we’re researching game;that is one thing. In my opinion it’s more complex than that. Have they excluded other factors shoterning telomere? Such as any childhood diseases, environmental toxins, electronics in the environment, dietary considerations, malnutrition, iatrogenic considerations, vaccines, and any others I missed? Radiation from the environment, so on. If they have not considered these, and tested telomere shotening in a matching cohort, then the study may not have much merit. Thats how I see it.
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This will just be more justification to use evil eguenics lies of bad brains, damaged genes to justify the usual fraud diagnoses to push lethal poison drugs, ECT and whatever other tortures psychiatry can dream up to earn big profits from the suffering they inflict on others in the guise of medicine.
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