Sunday, March 31, 2013

HHS REVIEWS MEDITATION AND INFLAMATION

FROM: U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
From the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, I’m Ira Dreyfuss with HHS HealthBeat

A study indicates mindfulness meditation might benefit people with chronic inflammatory diseases by reducing the level of inflammation.

At the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Melissa Rosenkranz looked at data on about 60 people. About half got eight weeks of mindfulness training. The others were in a control group that got similar activities but without the mindfulness aspect. Mindfulness is a way to be in the moment without judging things such as how you feel emotionally about them.

Rosenkranz reports:

"Those who participated in the mindfulness training had a smaller post-intervention inflammatory response relative to those who participated in the control intervention."

The study in the journal Brain, Behavior and Immunity was supported by the National Institutes of Health.

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