Stress, Aging and Memory Loss
Ever feel so stressed that you become forgetful & forget important things? Or do you sometimes say that stress is giving you gray hair; making you age faster? It’s not just your imagination. Two new studies show how stress makes you forgetful and speeds up the aging process. A team of researchers, writing in the journal Science, explains that stressful situations over which a person feels he or she has no control activate an enzyme in the brain called protein kinase C. Another group of researchers, led by scientists at the University of California at San Francisco, has found a mechanism by which psychological stress literally speeds up aging at the cellular level.
