The power of exercise: buffering the effect of chronic stress on telomere length.

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Published in PLoS One on May 26, 2010

Authors

Eli Puterman1, Jue Lin, Elizabeth Blackburn, Aoife O'Donovan, Nancy Adler, Elissa Epel

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA. eli.puterman@ucsf.edu

Associated clinical trials:

A Training Program for Developing Social- and Personal Resources | NCT04165473

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