PSY333H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Adipose Tissue, Prostate Cancer, The Documentary
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Andrew fenech university of toronto guest interview. Intersection between mental and physical health: the utm experience. Chronic conditions: symptoms, mental health, care burden, relationships, me/cfs, cause, symptoms, mental health, care burden, relationships. Transformative programs: dean ornish, md, ornish"s program for reversing heart disease is the first integrative lifestyle program for reversing heart disease and other chronic conditions, study: increase telomerase, the enzyme that maintains telomere length. Intervention such as lifestyle changes was shown to significantly increase telomerase and thus increase telomeres which are the ends of chromosomes that control cell aging: study: turn on health-promoting genes and turn off disease-promoting genes. Change gene expression, turning on health-promoting genes and turning off disease-promoting genes. Documentary: shawn achor positive psychology and happiness, the happiness advantage: research linking happiness and success. Instead of deleting positive outliers, positive psychology wants to know why these outliers exist.
