News: A recent research by a team of scientists of Oxford have been discovered a gene associated with depression. Dr. Jonathan Flint's team studied thousands of Chinese women suffering from depression. Plus, comparing the DNA of these patients with the control group, the scientists noticed the depressed women had more DNA in their mitochondria, the organelle who supply energy to cells. They also found the the depressed women have shorter telomeres, the chromosomes' ending, which are associated with cells' ageing and finally organism's death. A mental illness have several responds and consequences to the hole body.
Personal opinion: I find quite interesting (and pretty funny) the relationship and connection between mental and body health. As this research had proved, depression's consequences might turn out terrible and irreversible for organism. The telomers shortening might age the hole body, and that's caused by depression! I didn't know depression had such effects. Our body is connected in a unique and amazing way, and all the little bad thinks, moods and habits may play against you.
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