The seminar last weekend started out light…dry work and then some slow partner work to acquaint the class with the defensive movements that would be required later in the day. It seemed simple enough. However, when stress enters the equation, the entire dynamic shifts – in three words…stress changes everything. I had…
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Prolonged Exposure to Stress Can Alter Your Genes – and Your Children’s Genes A groundbreaking study by researchers from Mount Sinai Hospital in New York has discovered trauma can alter the way genes function, and children can inherit the changes. The study, which focused on Holocaust survivors and their children who were born after…
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