Can meditation prolong your life? An article about telomeres.

Can meditation prolong your life by protecting and rebuilding your telomeres?

Telomeres, what are they? Before I talk about what telomeres are, what they do and what their connection is to meditation, let me ask you: Do you meditate? If yes, that’s great. If not, have you thought about it? Or is this concept so foreign to you that maybe you feel a bit uncomfortable with the idea?

The practice of daily mediation appears to be far removed from mainstream science. And yet, at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), a team of biochemists is immersed in a study about how meditation affects our physical health. Not what you would expect mainstream western science to be doing. Here is a recap of findings from the research at UCSF. Full post...