How popular is Shula? Shula is a rare first name for females but a somewhat popular surname for all people (#88825 out of 150436, Top 59%). (2000 U.S. DEMOGRAPHICS)
How chronic stress is harming our DNA. Elissa Epel is studying how personality, stress processes and environment affect our DNA â and how we might lessen damaging effects. Money problems, a heavy work load, caregiving â such increasingly common pressures have helped make stress a part of modern American life.
My father, though brunette, also had blond hair as a kid and has blue eyes. This is a great question that gets at the root of what our DNA does. People's hair and eye color can change over time, they can become less tolerant of milk as they get older, etc. What is going on? The quick answer is that for people to get the traits encoded in their genes, the genes need to be turned on. You can think of a gene as a recipe.