Effects of TM on Cardiovascular Disease - A brief overview People with High Blood Pressure may want to Medicate and Meditate Press release of American Heart Association. Aug. 5, 1996. Scientific report indicates that TM is as effective in moderate high blood pressure as drugs, whithout having the side-effects of the latter. Prevention of cardiovascular complications through TM . The effects is as good as intensive medication combined with life style change.
Meditation relaxes vessels, reduces blood pressure.
Psychosomatic Medicine, August 5, 1999. Transcending Heart Disease. Study shows the Transcendental Meditation technique lowers lipid peroxide levels in elderly. High levels of lipid peroxide have been shown in previous studies to be an important factor in the formation of atherosclerosis and to be directly associated with the aging process. Greatly decreased health insurance usage in retired people .