The Ravages Of Stress

HANGING IN THERE As caregiver for her autistic son Terence, 12, Darlene Hong made an ideal subject

DAVID PAUL MORRIS FOR TIME
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The experiment will have to be replicated before it's fully accepted, and the prospect of some sort of antiaging medicine to protect cells is distant at best. Still, the study seems to tie together a lot of interesting threads. "What will really be interesting," says Sapolsky, "will be to trace the pathways — how you go from the level of people getting no sleep down to the cellular level. It will be amazing once we understand that."

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