Professor of Biochemistry at the School of Immunology, Trinity College, Luke O’Neill told Pat Kenny how stress is the silent killer in our modern lives.
“Each extra hassler makes you lose nine months of your life”, Professor Luke O’Neill explained on the Pat Kenny Show on Sunday.
He explained how people who cause others stress can actively cause DNA damage and effectively precipitate aging.
An American study of two and a half thousand people found that the people who give you grief literally shorten your life by nine months on average per hassler.
“A hassler is someone who’s often hassling you, irritating you or maybe criticizing or excluding you”, Luke O’Neill told Newstalk.
“As we age our DNA gets stained so if…