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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.
If our environment can affect our DNA, then what does this mean for the old nature vs. nurture debate? In this TED talk, geneticist Cathy Griffins discusses the mysteries of epigenetics, and how it changes this age-old debate.