Your Intimate Holocaust: Findings from Hell

    The best study ever, and the worst, of how your stress contributes to cancer was recently released in Israel. Researchers tracked just under 316,000 Holocaust survivors–

  • Of men studied, those who spent the entire Second War in occupied Europe, survived, and then immigrated to Israel, their cancer rate was 3.5 times the rates of men of the same age who somehow reached Israel during the war.

  • As to women who were in Europe throughout the war as opposed to those making it to Israel before May, 1945, their cancer rates were more than double.

  • The younger a survivor was when the war began, the greater his/her chance was of developing cancer.

     These are findings from hell:  the younger you are when your world’s jerked from beneath, when your life’s daily at risk, when this is prolonged, when the warm rug of family and societal security denied and the longer this stress corrodes your guts, the greater the chance your body will one day host its own, very personal, holocaust, and this almost certainly holds for survivors of other extended historical horrors.

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