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without a family history of heart
disease — suggesting that the propensity to get stressed may be, to
some degree, inherited.
“Depression and stress are
known risk factors for heart disease, and they both have strong
heritability,” lead author Mark W.
Ketterer, Ph.D., of Henry Ford Hospital’s Department of Behavioral
Health, said in a press release.
“None of the other risk factors,
including high cholesterol, high
blood pressure or diabetes, were
shown to have a significant familial
link in this group. Therefore, it’s
likely that men who have an early
onset of heart disease might have
a genetic predisposition to stress,
which causes the heart disease.”
3. SPERM & OFFSPRING
DEVELOPMENT
Here’s a big incentive for future
fathers to start de-stressing now:
Research in animals suggests that
chronic stress could result in gene
expression changes to dad’s sperm
— and those changes could manifest in his offspring in the form of
a muted reaction to stress.
“It didn’t matter if dads were going through puberty or in adulthood
when stressed before they mated.
We’ve shown here for the first time
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While stress tends to
activate the ‘tend and befriend’
response in women, men have
been found to react to stress
more with the aggressive ‘fight
or flight’ response.”
that stress can produce long-term
changes to sperm that reprogram
the offspring HPA stress axis regulation,” lead researcher Tracy L.
Bale, Ph.D., said in a university
press release. “These findings suggest one way in which paternalstress exposure may be linked to
such neuropsychiatric diseases.”
4. PROSTATE CANCER
DEVELOPMENT
A recent study on mice found
c