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Meditation is seemingly helpful wrt telomerase. http://www.academia.edu/4326346/The_link_between_mindfulness_self-compassion_and_telomerase_activity_in_psoriasi
by DigitalJack 13y ago
Meditation is seemingly helpful wrt telomerase. http://www.academia.edu/4326346/The_link_between_mindfulness_self-compassion_and_telomerase_activity_in_psoriasis_Results_from_a_controlled_MBCT_trial http://www.academia.edu/4326346/The_link_between_mindfulness...
- VLM 13y agoI looked at the study and everyone involved smoked and drank to some extent, and the meditation had some improvement on depression/anxiety/worry all of which are usually blamed for cig / booze use. At least some subjects were likely self medicating themselves and its highly likely the semi-dramatic change in reported attitude would lead to semi-dramatic change in self medication. However booze/cigs use after the experiment was not charted which is highly unfortunate. It seems highly likely meditation reduces self-medication due to improved mental state, and reduced self medication as per this article study has some direct effect on telomerase. So indirectly it sounds like a believable testable falsifiable hypothesis but its hardly been proven.
- DigitalJack 13y agoI may have found the wrong study. I know of a few so I'll go back and see if the others were better. Edit: better study http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3057175/#S29title http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3057175/#S29titl...