Reducing children’s exposure to toxic stress and providing safe, stable developmental environments can prevent or reverse the damaging effects of toxic stress.
Children who experience toxic stress are at a greater risk for health problems like heart disease, diabetes, and depression later in life.
Not all stress is bad. There are three types of stress: toxic, tolerable, and positive, such as when a child has a challenging experience like receiving annual vaccines.
Brief Health and Learning Are Deeply Interconnected in the Body: An Action Guide for Policymakers Topics: Toxic Stress October 21, 2020
Presentation Protecting Our Children: COVID-19’s Impact on Early Childhood and ACEs Topics: Lifelong Health and Wellbeing, Toxic Stress September 17, 2020
Infographic What Is Inflammation? And Why Does it Matter for Child Development? Topics: Lifelong Health and Wellbeing, Toxic Stress August 11, 2020
Podcast The Brain Architects Podcast: Toxic Stress: Protecting the Foundation Topics: Toxic Stress February 7, 2020
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