Two independent lines of inquiry suggest that growing up under conditions of contextual
adversity (eg, poverty and household chaos) accelerates aging and undermines long-term …

Two seemingly independent bodies of research suggest a two-hit model of accelerated
aging, one highlighting early-life stress and the other reproduction. The first, informed by …

Although early‐life adversity has been associated with negative consequences during
adulthood, growing evidence shows that such adversity can also lead to subsequent stress …

A growing literature suggests that exposure to adverse social conditions may accelerate
biological aging, offering one mechanism through which adversity may increase risk for age …

Most developmental work regards adverse developmental experiences as forces that
undermine well-being. Here, I present an alternative—or complementary—view …

Telomeres play an important part in aging and show relationships to lifetime adversity,
particularly childhood adversity. Meta-analyses demonstrate reliable associations between …

Although exposure to stressors is known to increase disease susceptibility and accelerate
ageing, evidence is accumulating that these effects can span more than one generation …

Accumulation of life stressors predicts accelerated development and progression of
diseases of aging. Telomere length, the DNA‐based biomarker indicating cellular aging, is a …

In the past decade, the growing field of telomere science has opened exciting new avenues
for understanding the cellular and molecular substrates of stress and stress-related aging …

Research on mechanisms underlying fetal programming of health and disease risk has
focused primarily on processes that are specific to cell types, organs or phenotypes of …