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increase by as much as 65 percent, according to Michael Murphy and Steven Donovan in The Physical and Psychological Effects of Meditation (Institute of Noetic Sciences, 1997).One form of moving meditation that I personally perform is qi gong. It places my body into a hypometabolic state where oxygen consumption is reduced by up to 20 percent.How to avoid burn out in life and lower your stress levelsBack in 1908, the famed German physiologist Max Rubner introduced what he called The Rate of Living Theory, which explored the relationship between ones metabolic rate, body size, and longevity. The faster you spun your biological wheels, according to Rubner, the shorter your life. This theory isnt exactly new: the ancients concluded that a person had just so many heartbeats or breaths per lifetime before expiring. Whether or not this is true, it seems obvious that meditation lowers stress levels and increases the bodys ability to utilize oxygen, which is to ones benefit.With qigong meditation, blood lactate levels drop dramatically within 10 minutes, which lessens anxiety and relaxes the muscles. This is coupled with a decline in the stress hormone cortisol. In one study of people over 45, qigong caused DHEA levels to rise by 23 percent for men and 47 percent for women.Taking your brain function to a higher levelOne of the jobs of DHEA is to maintain brain cells; theres up to six times more DHEA in those tissues than anywhere else in the body, and folks suffering with Alzheimers have been found to be very low in DHEA. Another hormone that meditation helps you produce is melatonin.Melatonin has recently been discovered to prevent aging just another good reason to meditate. According to the University of Massachusetts Medical Center, increased levels of melatonin were evident in their studies of meditators.Meditation can take many forms; what they all have in common is watching thoughts as they appear upon the mental screen and letting them simply pass as if they were subtitles of a movie. This, of course, takes practice, but the time invested would be more than worth it if all you got from it were the things we just discussed. Yet theres much more.What if our normal thinking consciousness was only one room in our mental house?What if there were doors that opened to greater perception, even experiences that you could say are beyond language? Would you care to explore further? History is replete with accounts of ordinary men and women who have triggered great awakenings and exclaimed that a much greater reality awaits us all.Perhaps were on the cusp of a new era where millions will find not just longer lives, but greater peace, contentment, and compassion through meditation. After all, if it can be accomplished by one person, it can be accomplished by many. Shall we journey together and see where this takes us?TweetAbout the author: Pre-baby boomer Peter Ragnar has written over twenty-eights books and published courses on every aspect of personal development. He feeds the thirst for those special individuals who are on the quest for human excellence around the
speaker Dr. Jennifer Berman is a urologist and an internationally renowned expert in the field of female sexual and menopausal health. She is the founder of The Berman Womens Wellness Center in Beverly Hills, and is one of only a few female urologists in the United States. Considered Americas leading expert on womens sexual health issues, she pioneered the clinical research studies on female sexual function as well as the medical therapies that are in development and being used by women today.Reference ListGodfrey, J. Toward Optimal Health: Eva Selhub, M.D., Discusses Mind-Body Medicine for Women. Journal of Womens Health (15409996) [serial online]. December 2006;15(10):1111-1115. Available from: Academic Search Premier, Ipswich, MA. Accessed September 17, 2012.Grish, K. Coming of age. Natural Health [serial online]. June 2011;41(5):56-95. Available from: Health Source Consumer Edition, Ipswich, MA. Accessed September 17, 2012.National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine. Meditation: An Introduction.http://nccam.nih.gov/health/meditation/overview.htm. Updated June, 2010. Accessed September 17, 2012.Meditation and Womens Health Article-download here
as much as 65 percent, according to Michael Murphy and Steven Donovan in The Physical and Psychological Effects of Meditation (Institute of Noetic Sciences, 1997).One form of moving meditation that I personally perform is qi gong. It places my body into a hypometabolic state where oxygen consumption is reduced by up to 20 percent.How to avoid burn out in life and lower your stress levelsBack in 1908, the famed German physiologist Max Rubner introduced what he called The Rate of Living Theory, which explored the relationship between ones metabolic rate, body size, and longevity. The faster you spun your biological wheels, according to Rubner, the shorter your life. This theory isnt exactly new: the ancients concluded that a person had just so many heartbeats or breaths per lifetime before expiring. Whether or not this is true, it seems obvious that meditation lowers stress levels and increases the bodys ability to utilize oxygen, which is to ones benefit.With qigong meditation, blood lactate levels drop dramatically within 10 minutes, which lessens anxiety and relaxes the muscles. This is coupled with a decline in the stress hormone cortisol. In one study of people over 45, qigong caused DHEA levels to rise by 23 percent for men and 47 percent for women.Taking your brain function to a higher levelOne of the jobs of DHEA is to maintain brain cells; theres up to six times more DHEA in those tissues than anywhere else in the body, and folks suffering with Alzheimers have been found to be very low in DHEA. Another hormone that meditation helps you produce is melatonin.Melatonin has recently been discovered to prevent aging just another good reason to meditate. According to the University of Massachusetts Medical Center, increased levels of melatonin were evident in their studies of meditators.Meditation can take many forms; what they all have in common is watching thoughts as they appear upon the mental screen and letting them simply pass as if they were subtitles of a movie. This, of course, takes practice, but the time invested would be more than worth it if all you got from it were the things we just discussed. Yet theres much more.What if our normal thinking consciousness was only one room in our mental house?What if there were doors that opened to greater perception, even experiences that you could say are beyond language? Would you care to explore further? History is replete with accounts of ordinary men and women who have triggered great awakenings and exclaimed that a much greater reality awaits us all.Perhaps were on the cusp of a new era where millions will find not just longer lives, but greater peace, contentment, and compassion through meditation. After all, if it can be accomplished by one person, it can be accomplished by many. Shall we journey together and see where this takes us?TweetAbout the author: Pre-baby boomer Peter Ragnar has written over twenty-eights books and published courses on every aspect of personal development. He feeds the thirst for those special individuals who are on the quest for human excellence around the world. His
Visit www:juliotafforelli.com Meditacao e envelhecimento celular. Tecnica milenar oriental, a meditacao e conhecida por aumentar a concentracao e proporcionar relaxamento. De acordo com estudo da Universidade da California, durante a meditacao, a enzima telomerase (ligada ao sistema imunologico) tem sua acao intensificada. Resultado: quem medita, tem suas defesas ampliadas e passa a lidar melhor com o stress. Mas a meditacao sozinha nao resolve. "Por si so, ela nao aumenta a atividade da telomerase", diz Clifford Saron, lider do estudo. Segundo ele, a meditacao e apenas um dos mecanismos usados pelo corpo para aumentar o bem-estar psicologico do individuo. E e esse estado e nao o ato de meditar em si que age diretamente sobre a atividade da telomerase nas celulas do sistema imunologico, que sao as reais responsaveis por promover a longevidade nas celulas. "Atividades que aumentam a qualidade de vida podem ter efeitos profundos no organismo de uma pessoa", diz Saron. Para chegar aos resultados, a equipe de cientistas analisou sessenta pacientes durante tres meses: metade praticou a meditacao; os outros trinta, nao, atuando apenas como grupo de controle da pesquisa. As taxas da telomerase se mostraram cerca de 30% mais elevadas nas celulas do sistema imunologico dos voluntarios que meditavam. Foram esses pacientes que apresentaram, ainda, um aumento nas capacidades psiquicas, como melhora na percepcao de controle (sobre a propria vida e arredores), atencao e nos propositos da vida (sentido de vida e metas a longo prazo). Alem disso, eles experimentaram diminuicao da neurose ou das emocoes negativas. Nobel - Co-autora do estudo, o primeiro a relacionar telomerase e meditacao, Elizabeth Blackburn ganhou o premio Nobel de Medicina em 2009 pela descoberta da telomerase e dos telomeros, sequencias do DNA que ficam no final dos cromossomos e tendem a se encurtar toda vez que uma celula se divide. Mas, sempre que a medida dos telomeros fica baixa, a celula tende a nao se dividir mais e pode, eventualmente, morrer. E ai que entra a telomerase. A enzima e capaz de reconstruir o tamanho de um telomero, impedindo que ele entre em colapso. Estudos anteriores ja apontavam a telomerase como o elo entre o stress psicologico e a saude fisica.Fonte: Revista Veja. Meditation and LongevityPosted on August 13, 2013 If I meditate, will I live longer?I am passionate about my own longevity. I have a daily meditation practice. I teach a weekly yoga class (a small part of my time, a large part of my life). As a scientist, I study aging from a practical as well as an evolutionary perspective. I would dearly like to answer yes to this question. But in my readings the last few days, the best answer I can offer is, there are some data that hint in that direction. I cant justify a more definite answer, and in fact I suspect that the question cannot be posed in experimental terms. Still, theres a lot more that could be done.Imagine designing an experiment even an idealized experiment to test the effect of meditation on life span. Animal models are useless. Best would be to take a
diverse group of people, divide them into two statistically-matched subgroups, and instruct one group to meditate and the other not to. Everything else about their lives should be kept the same. But meditation doesnt work that way. Over any substantial period of time, meditation practice is likely to change attitudes and habits and occupations. These two groups of people will no longer be comparable.This is just one of the pitfalls in trying to scientifically evaluate claims about meditation and life expectancy. Of course, experiments with real human subjects must respect their freedom. Realistically, all we can do is to compare a set of people who meditates with another set who do not meditate. We can select them in such a way to match their ages, their sexes, their weights, diets, exercise habits, incomes and ethnicities. But these groups will have had different life experiences, different social environments, and their attitude toward life will not be similar. People who choose meditation have a take on the world and a set of values that likely leads them to pay more attention to care for themselves and others. The culture and pratice of meditation are both conducive to that. These social determinants of longevity are quite important, and any epidemiological study of meditation must use a combination of selection and ANOVA to compensate for inevitable differences between the two groups. (ANOVA stands for Analysis of Variance, and it is a common mathematical procedure for separating and evaluating various contributing causes of one outcome.) There would be inevitable ambiguity in how to translate the question into statistical terms. For example, a person may tell you that his meditation practice led him to give up smoking. Do we compare this against a matched control who continues to smoke, or to a subject who quit smoking without practicing meditation? Do we count the benefits of improved self-care as part of the benefit of meditation, or do we factor it out as if it were an independent decision?The study we are imagining would have to include a large number of subjects with detailed information about each individuals health and life style. It has never been attempted, to my knowledge. The studies that have been done are far more modest, and so the evidence that we have is at best tentative and indirect.The studies that we do have fall in three categories:Meditators tend to be healthier. But how much of this is because people who make a commitment to meditation are more likely to care for themselves better in other ways?For example, in a new article (Hoge 2013) naively measures telomere length in people who meditate and people who dont. While they find a significant difference, its not warranted to interpret this as an effect of the meditation, because people who meditate are likely to take care of themselves better in other ways as well.Before/after comparisons of physiology of meditators. This is very helpful and suggestive, but we must always be careful about imputing long-term benefits from a short-term response, because there are short-term challenges (like exercise and fasting) to
which the body responds in ways that slow aging in the long run.A large but questionable scientific literature that is funded by the Transcendental Meditation establishment, which has cash to spend and a product to sell. I regard this research with the same skepticism as drug trials sponsored by the drugs manufacturer. Walton reviewed this literature a few years ago.The best work in the field comes out of the AME center at UCSF (Aging, Metabolism and Emotion). I was impressed with one study for its clean design and significant outcome. 30 participants in an intensive meditation retreat were compared with a matched group of 30 people on a waiting list for the same retreat. Telomerase activity was measured to be 40% higher on average in the retreatants. I have written in this column and elsewhere that I believe telomere length is not just a predictor but a cause of aging and mortality. A 40% increase in telomere activity sounds like a very significant number, but the catch is that the base telomerase in humans is very low. For the most part, telomere length is in free-fall through a lifetime, and it is not clear that 40% more telomerase is enough to help that.From the TM literature, here is a study (Walton, 2002) that demonstrates a reduction in blood pressure from meditation. Now, its true that high blood pressure predicts heart attacks, but its not necessarily true that lowering blood pressure addresses the root cause of the problem, as Ive argued a few weeks ago in this column. Atherosclerosis increases blood pressure and atherosclerosis increases risk of a heart attack. But decreasing blood pressure without addressing the underlying atherosclerosis may not have a benefit.The most relevant of the studies from the Maharishi Institute looked at a group of 202 older people identified as elevated risk for heart disease. They were trained in Transcendental Meditation, and Schneider et al found a 23% reduction in all-cause mortality over 7 years. This sounds impressive, until you realize how small the sample was. The result was barely statistically significant.Here is a study by Richard Brown of Columbia that finds health benefits from yogic breathing exercises, and extrapolates from there to speculate on life expectancy.Theres a column in Huffington Post this week by Aditi Nerurkar that parallels some of my conclusions.My Own Suggestions for Studies I Would Like to See#1Collect vital statistics from a variety of meditation studios and Buddhis sanghas for members who have died in recent years, and compare to similar statistics from selected church groups.#2Train a group of cancer patients in healing meditations focused on their particular ailment, and compare outcomes to a control group trained in a generic meditation technique.#3Heres a thought: as real-time assays for telomerase become more practical, perhaps it will be possible to measure an individuals telomerase levels while she is meditating. In biofeedback therapy, people have learned to control a great many body functions that were previously thought to be autonomic: heart rate, temperature of a particular body part, electrical activity in a specific part of the brain. Most people
there are few head-to-head studies. As a result of the paucity of data, we are unable to recommend a specific method of practice when TM is used for the treatment of high BP. However, TM (or medi- tation techniques in general) does not appear to pose signifi- cant health risks. Additional and higher-quality studies are required to provide conclusions on the BP-lowering efficacy of meditation forms other than TM.The writing group conferred to TM a Class IIB, Level of Evidence B recommendation in regard to BP-lowering efficacy. TM may be considered in clinical practice to lower BP. Because of many negative studies or mixed results and a paucity of available trials, all other meditation techniques (including MBSR) received a Class III, no benefit, Level of Evidence C recommendation Thus, other meditation techniques are not recommended in clinical practice to lower BP at this time.You may think that some arbitrary study is well-done, but up until April 22, the various meta-analyses of TM and all other forms of meditation basically gave them all a fail, including because, despite being associated with major universities, most medidtation researchers are advocates/practitioenrs of the specific form of meditation that thy study and their research, no matter what you say otherwise, isnt considered unbiased by skeptical reviewers, any more than research performed only by TMers is.The AHA statement quoted above says that head-to-head studies of TM vs other forms of meditation is required to really be sure what is better for the treatment of hypertension.Studies like this one:[Transcendental meditation, mindfulness, and longevity: an experimental study with the elderly.](http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2693686)Each meditation practice that was studied had an advocate on the research team. All meditation teachers from each tradition were trained to present themselves with the same level of professionalism as the TM teachers, as a way of equalizing expectations between meditation practices.I recently heard that TM organization is offering to teach research subjects TM for free as part of head-to-head studies on TM vs whatever. There are many dozens of mindfulness studies being published every month vs only 2-3 TM studies per month since anyone can become a mindfulness meditation teacher, so it is low-hanging fruit to do studies on mindfulness.However, the only way to settle the question: _which meditation is better for what?_ is to do large-scale (hundreds or thousands of subjects doing each form of meditation), and, from what I am hearing, the TM organization is hoping that they can encourage such studies to be done.
go too far up, thats [associated with] cancer, says Clifford Saron, associate research scientist at the University of California-Davis Center for Mind and Brain and a co-author of the new paper. He notes, however, that the difference is one that is orders of magnitude higher so that meditation could not possibly cause cancer. (More on Time.com: Want to Eat Less? Imagine Eating More)So how does meditation affect the machinery of cellular reproduction? Probably by reducing stress, research suggests. Severe psychological stress particularly early in life and in the absence of social support has been linked with poorer health, increasing risk for heart disease, stroke and some cancers. This is likely due to the negative effects of high levels of stress hormones on the brain and body. By reducing stress hormones, perhaps meditation contributes to healthier telomeres.In a study published a few years ago in Lancet Oncology, researchers compared 30 men before and after adopting lifestyle changes following a diagnosis of low-risk prostate cancer. The patients started meditating, switched to a healthy plant-based diet, exercised and attended a support group. Like the new study, the Lancet Oncology paper found increases in telomerase linked with reduced psychological distress.The mind has a big influence on the body. If you get anxious, your heart beats faster and your stomach churns, says Blackburn. But we dont know yet [if meditation is linked to] a reduction in stress hormones. The physiology is very complex.Recent evidence supports a connection: a study published this month in the Archives of General Psychiatry showed that mindfulness meditation can reduce relapse in patients who recovered from depression just as well as antidepressants. (More on Time.com: Is a Wandering Mind an Unhappy One?)Of course, the increases in telomerase seen in the current study could be due to some other unknown factor that separates the meditators from the controls. Thats another reason why its too early to suggest that stress-reducing mind-body interventions like meditation be prescribed as a treatment for any diseases or disorders. The study also did not show that meditation actually extends life, only that it may increase the activity of an enzyme that is associated with longevity.Still, research on meditation is expanding dramatically, with studies finding it helpful for pain, depression, addiction and many other conditions. Theres a very exciting dialogue going on, Marlatt says of the research. It works for many different kinds of clinical problems. Its very promising.That noise you hear in the background? Millions of new meditators chanting, Om.Correction [Dec. 23, 2010]: The original version of this story misstated that after their three-month stay at a meditation retreat, meditators had on average about 40% more activity of the enzyme telomerase than controls did. That figure should be 30%.
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