Science has proven stress impact our health span!

There are things we can do to maintain our health span over time. This is what Nobel Prize winner Elizabeth Blackburn is telling us through her studies in DNA level. How we face challenges in life impact our health at the DNA and Chromosome level. Her studies show that there are things we can do to maintain our health.

I have always been a little bit pessimistic in life. Now that I focus on investment as my new career, I often find myself looking at the possible risk of market crash in this extended market rallies. How I see this, whether I think of it as stress or as challenge, will likely impact my life and health span as explained by Blackburn. Luckily meditation can help in some cases in her studies. Enjoy the video.

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