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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.
Fear can modify our DNA and influence the behavior of future generations, researchers find. According to a Nature Neuroscience study, when an ancestor endured a terrifying experience â and managed to survive â their genetic machinery kept note of it, manifesting as a phobia that gets passed down to subsequent kin.