Negative emotions can really make you short-lived

Nobel Prize winner, Elizabeth Blackburn, is a professor at the University of California.

He published the book "The Telomere Effect", which reveals that negative emotions and stress can be short-lived.

Since there is something called telomeres in the human body, the longer the telomeres, the younger and healthier, and the shorter the telomeres, the older the person is.

In addition, telomeres change dynamically. Your telomeres are very long, but they can become shorter over time.

This is the reason for "white heads overnight."

However, what is the effect of "telomere shortening"?

The negative emotions of people making the "telomeres" shorter.

Uncle Khiran once threw a small weight in an essay, saying that negative emotions make "telomeres" shorter, and shorter telomeres age people. This is the conclusion.

However, this conclusion may confuse correlation and causality.

It's also possible that short telomeres can make your mood worse.

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Of course, this is only to mobilize everyone's critical thinking, not to cancel Elizabeth Blackburn's research, because they won the Nobel Prize, and the research has to be very rigorous.

"The Telomere Effect" mentions experiments that support this view.

The researchers measured the telomeres of mothers who had long cared for sick children.

The result: The longer a mother cares for her child, the shorter the telomeres are.

This confirms the causality of the pressure to shorten the telomere, because the length of the mother's telomere cannot determine the length of the child's illness, so the pressure of parenting makes the mother's telomere shorter.

In addition, the longer the pressure time, the shorter the telomere.

This research is actually quite fatalistic, because there are some things in life that we cannot understand, the child's illness is just a coincidence, while the mother who takes care of him also has to pay the price of aging.

My uncle has a friend who is honest and very kind personality, but his wife had throat cancer 8 years ago, he took care of her for 8 years, only until his wife died earlier this year.

I haven't seen him for several years. When I saw her a while ago, I found that she was old and messy. Very sad.

This is definitely due to the shortening of the telomere under stress.

We see only these uncontrollable factors and have little awareness. Do you know what telomere effect can actually help us?

There are 4 points.

First, there can be pressure, but no hostility.

The king of gambling, Stanley, is almost 100 years old. He has a big business and runs on knives. Isn't he under pressure?

There must be pressure, but the difference lies in hostility.

Just like when you are in a hurry, you are waiting for the lift, and the lift stops at a certain floor and does not go down, you are very irritable, that's normal.

However, if you are hostile and think that something is wrong with the elevator passenger on that floor, then that is not normal.

If you are often hostile towards other people and the world, you will only increase your telomeres.

Second, excessive pessimism

We used to say that optimists tend to be healthier, and there's no scientific basis yet, but the "telomere effect" makes a compelling statement.

People are too pessimistic, they will perceive uncertainty as a big threat, and they will always feel that there is danger everywhere, and a little trouble will make the sky collapse.

Plus, it will form a vicious circle, the more pessimistic you are, the easier it will be to mess up, and the more pessimistic you will be about the future.

A chain is formed like this, and you cannot escape the fate of shortening the telomeres.

Third, don't "think wild"

There is a study that states that most people spend 50% of their time thinking about things that are not serious and negative.

Moreover, some bad things from the past will keep repeating itself in our hearts and leave you trapped in them.

As a result, you are very much surrounded by negative emotions.

Like a fairy tale, the little monkey was injured, not that serious, but always found and died in the end.

Therefore, we must focus more on the present, and don't let the shortcomings of the past cover us.

Fourth, don't beat yourself up

In fact, many people's animosity stems from dissatisfaction with themselves and regret over their past.

Because we always feel that at some point in the past, we can do better and get rid of today's difficulties.

However, not to mention that time is one dimensional, and the past cannot be changed at all.

Even if you make a better choice at the time, you will still pay the price for that choice, because as revealed in the movie "Butterfly Effect", everything is connected.

Small changes, the whole network will change, what you might call another good option, can bring you unexpected consequences.

Therefore, letting go of self-blame is the best option; letting go is the only way to follow the world.

No matter what, you have to learn to love yourself, no music, you have to dance to your heart's content, no one accompanies you, and you have to live with colors.