A ground breaking book on the history of Telomeres offering fresh advice on how to slow down aging & lengthen life Nobel prize winning Doctor Elizabeth Blackburn & leading health psychologist Dr Elissa Epel have discovered biological markers called Telomeres which can help to understand how healthy our cells are & what we can do to improve them The book specifically looks ideas including; how biological age is not chronological age; a biological basis for the mind-body connection how sleep & diet can affect telomeres & shockingly how mothers who are highly stressed during pregnancy have children with shorter telomeres It also offers tools & advice on how to determine cellular age & telomere health Doctor Elizabeth Blackburn was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2009 for her discovery of telomeres & their role in the ageing process & has previously been named in TIME magazine's 100 Most Influential People Dr Elissa Epel is a leading health psychologist who has conducted pioneering research uncovering the psychobiological mechanisms related to how stress ages us & compromises our health-from emotional eating to unhealthy storage of abdominal fat to telomere shortening