In the book The Telomere Effect is reported that the following strategies help to respond to stress:

• Self-Compassion
• Mindfulness
• Cognitive defusion
• Psychological distance
• Doing physical exercise
• Showing gratitude for what we have
• Do not avoid stressful situation, but accepting it and learn how to manage it.
• Focusing on breathing and in particular on longer exhaling because it reduces heart rate, blood pressure and promotes stress reduction.

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• The Telomere Effect | 2020 | Elizabeth Blackburn, Elissa Epel

Psychological distance is the ability to make a distance between an event or a situation and our thoughts. It is possible to make distance to an event to different levels:

• Linguistic level: using the third person in our internal dialogue for example asking ourselves What is making Paolo nervous? instead of This event is making me nervous.
• Temporal level: for example asking ourselves What is the impact of this event in 10 years?
• Visual level: visualising ourselves far from the stressful situation and see ourselves that is living this situation and asking What emotions is he living?, Why is he living this emotions?

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Mediterranean diet is considered one of the most varied and healthy diet. There is little uniformity about the serving size, however moderation is a good principle to follow.

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• Mediterranean diet and health status: an updated meta-analysis and a proposal for a literature-based adherence score | 2014 | Francesco Sofi, Claudio Macchi, Rosanna Abbate, Gian Franco Gensini and Alessandro Casini
• Mediterranean diet pyramid today. Science and cultural updates | 2011 | Anna Bach-Faig, Elliot M Berry, Denis Lairon, Joan Reguant, Antonia Trichopoulou, Sandro Dernini, F Xavier Medina, Maurizio Battino, Rekia Belahsen, Gemma Miranda and Lluís Serra-Majem

Antioxidants foods like:

• fresh fruits
• vegetables
• vegetable oils
• nuts
• seeds

have the power to reduce oxidative stress, however they also may have negative effects if consumed in large quantities and without being part of a varied diet.

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• Oxidative stress

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• Oxidative Stress: Harms and Benefits for Human Health | 2017 | G Pizzino, N Irrera, M Cucinotta, G Pallio, F Mannino, V Arcoraci, F Squadrito, D Altavilla, A Bitto

Definition

Oxidative stress is a phenomenon caused when there are too much reactive oxygen species (ROS) in the body that our body can not manage properly.

Mechanisms

ROS have some necessary roles like cells signaling, however when they are too much, they can lead to cells damage.

Oxidative stress is responsible of several diseases (i.e., cancer, diabetes, metabolic disorders, atherosclerosis, and cardiovascular diseases).

Oxidative stress is typically seen as harmful for our body, however can be useful to treat diseases like cancer. I think this is because oxidative stress contributes to damage and therefore eliminate cancerous cells.

Cellular senescence is the state when a cell stops dividing because it has reached the limit of number of times it can divide. One of the causes is that the telomeres are become too short.

Cellular senescence produces an inflammatory response.

Chronic inflammation is associated with aging and with a higher likelihood to develop chronic diseases.

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• The Telomere Effect | 2020 | Elizabeth Blackburn, Elissa Epel