my best life 07.10.17.1204P

CASE STUDY #2
Psychologist, Dr. Rachel Yehuda heads up the Mt. Sinai
Health System in New York City. She has been studying
for years the emotional effects of descendants from the
holocaust survivors.
Her studies show that when a person is exposed to a
stressful event, the body produces cortisol, a steroid
hormone in the adrenal gland, that helps regulate the
body’s response to stress.
If Cortisol levels are too low, a person may find it difficult
to cope with stressful events and is very susceptible to
PTSD, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
Such an experience can create a genetic mutation
resulting in a sequence of genes being turned on or off.
This could create a stress related disorder sequence in the
genes.
Dr. Yehuda, is studying the links between potential gene
sequencing related disorders from WWII holocaust
survivors and their decedents.
Incredibly, the Nazi atrocities are still effecting modern
generations because the gene mutations from ancestors
living during the 1940s have been passed down and
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