Meditation and Gene Expression
A Powerful 2008 Harvard experiment has shown that meditation affects us at the genetic level and clarifies why it had such a profound impact on health. Twenty volunteers were trained in various relaxation response techniques for eight weeks. After only 8 weeks, genetic analysis of the volunteers blood found that 1,561 genes were expressed differently (switched on or off) after the training: specifically, 874 genes were upregulated ("dimmer switch" turned up) and 687 were downregulated (dimmer switch turned down). <ore experienced practitioners of the techniques were found to have 2,209 genes affected. Many of the altered genes were involved in the bodies response to oxidative stress...
from How Your Mind Can Heal Your Body. David Hamilton
A Powerful 2008 Harvard experiment has shown that meditation affects us at the genetic level and clarifies why it had such a profound impact on health. Twenty volunteers were trained in various relaxation response techniques for eight weeks. After only 8 weeks, genetic analysis of the volunteers blood found that 1,561 genes were expressed differently (switched on or off) after the training: specifically, 874 genes were upregulated ("dimmer switch" turned up) and 687 were downregulated (dimmer switch turned down). <ore experienced practitioners of the techniques were found to have 2,209 genes affected. Many of the altered genes were involved in the bodies response to oxidative stress...
from How Your Mind Can Heal Your Body. David Hamilton
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