{"id":110958,"date":"2020-08-06T15:16:05","date_gmt":"2020-08-06T22:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/social-bonds-in-adulthood-dont-mediate-early-life-trauma"},"modified":"2020-08-06T15:16:05","modified_gmt":"2020-08-06T22:16:05","slug":"social-bonds-in-adulthood-dont-mediate-early-life-trauma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/social-bonds-in-adulthood-dont-mediate-early-life-trauma","title":{"rendered":"Social bonds in adulthood don\u2019t mediate early life trauma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/social-bonds-in-adulthood-dont-mediate-early-life-trauma2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When baboons experience trauma in early life, they have higher levels of stress hormones in adulthood\u2014a potential marker of poor health\u2014than their peers who don\u2019t experience trauma, even if they have strong social relationships as adults, according to a study led by a University of Michigan researcher.<\/p>\n<p>The study examined the links between childhood adversity, adult social relationships and glucocorticoid concentrations. The goal was to determine whether one of the reasons that baboons who experience early trauma live shorter, less healthy lives was because they fail to develop strong social relationships in adulthood, which could be beneficial to health.<\/p>\n<p>U-M biological anthropologist Stacy Rosenbaum and her co-authors found that while early life adversity didn\u2019t strongly affect baboons\u2019 ability to have social relationships, any positive effect of those relationships was much smaller than the large negative effects of early life trauma.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When baboons experience trauma in early life, they have higher levels of stress hormones in adulthood\u2014a potential marker of poor health\u2014than their peers who don\u2019t experience trauma, even if they have strong social relationships as adults, according to a study led by a University of Michigan researcher. The study examined the links between childhood adversity, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":501,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/501"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}