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Meditation and vacation effects have an impact on disease-associated molecular phenotypes.
Translational psychiatry - 30 Aug 2016
Epel E S, Puterman E, Lin J, Blackburn E H, Lum P Y, Beckmann N D, Zhu J, Lee E, Gilbert A, Rissman R A, Tanzi R E, Schadt E E
Abstract excerpt
Meditation is becoming increasingly practiced, especially for stress-related medical conditions. Meditation may improve cellular health; however, studies have not separated out effects of meditation from vacation-like effects in a residential randomized controlled trial. We recruited healthy women non-meditators to live at a resort for 6 days and randomized to either meditation retreat or relaxing on-site, with...
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