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Women who had tough childhoods have immune cells that produce more reactive oxygen molecules, even though those molecules aren’t causing more DNA damage.
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The Association of Childhood Maltreatment With Lipid Peroxidation and DNA Damage in Postpartum Women
Cross-Sectional Study
Human
The study looked at some signs of body stress from childhood trauma but didn’t measure the specific cellular energy factories (mitochondria) that produce harmful molecules called ROS, so it can’t say whether trauma increases those molecules as the claim suggests.