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Before our various toughening activities build mental and psychological toughness, those activities foster physiological toughness. Those physiological changes depend upon our genes being activated and deactivated in response to the toughening activities. Thus understanding toughening requires some appreciation of genetic processes.
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Dienstbier, R.A. (2015). Heredity, Genes, and Environment. In: Building Resistance to Stress and Aging. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137454850_5
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