Research: (small study) Yoga And Meditation Change Gene ResponseTo Stress
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From: Rufus on 2 Jul 2008 22:27 That's what I believe...the two work hand in hand. -- - Rufus Mark Mandell wrote: > There might be "some" validity to this research study, however, it would be > much more accurate if they determined whether or not the IBD related genes > were ALSO affected by the relaxation techniques. My experience(having both > CD AND being a long term meditation practitioner)is that it does NOT prevent > CD flares though I will concede that the flares are less violent(which shows > the mind/body connection is more complex than I once believed through the > field of psychoneuroimmunology). > So one may need a regimen of BOTH meditation AND medication. > > Mark Mandell > "zumone2002" <zumone2002(a)yahoo.com> wrote in message > news:56be5142-3008-4a42-be49-879b2feb7a1b(a)l64g2000hse.googlegroups.com... >> http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/113735.php >> >> Yoga And Meditation Change Gene Response To Stress >> 02 Jul 2008 >> >> Research from the US suggests that mind body techniques like yoga and >> meditation that put the body in a state of deep rest known as the >> relaxation response, are capable of changing how genes behave in >> response to stress. >> >> The study is the work of researchers at Benson-Henry Institute for >> Mind/Body Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and the >> Genomics Center at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) and is >> published online in the open-access journal PLoS One. >> >> Mind-body practices that produce a relaxation response have been used >> by people across cultures for thousands of years to prevent and treat >> disease, wrote the authors in their background to the study. >> >> The relaxation response is characterized by reduction in oxygen >> intake, increase in exhalation of nitric oxide, and lower >> psychological distress. Many experts see it as the counterpart to the >> "flight or fight" stress response that has already been shown by a >> number of studies to have a distinct pattern of physiological and gene >> expression changes (called "transcriptional profile"). >> >> The researchers for this study wanted to test the idea that the >> relaxation response also produces changes in gene expression. >> >> The researchers recruited three groups of people. In the first group >> (called the M group) there were 19 long term practitioners who had >> been practising various ways of producing the relaxation response >> every day for a long time (for instance with daily yoga, repeated >> prayer or meditation practice). >> >> In the second group were another 19 people who they called the >> "healthy controls" (group N1), who were not daily practitioners, and >> the third group was like the healthy controls group, except these 20 >> people completed 8 weeks of relaxation response training (this group >> was N2). >> >> The researchers assessed transcriptional profiles of the people in all >> three groups from blood samples. >> >> They found the expressions of a total of 2,209 genes were >> significantly different between groups M and N1, and a total of 1,561 >> genes were similarly significantly different between groups N2 and N1. >> >> More importantly, however, was the fact 433 of the genes were common >> to both sets of comparisons: the same ones were different between M >> and N1 and between M and N2, so even short term practise of the >> relaxation response appeared to produce changes in these 433 gene >> expressions. >> ... >> Libermann said they used "cutting edge" genomic analysis and the >> "latest bioinformatics tools to identify potential gene functions, >> generating hypotheses that can then be tested in laboratory or >> clinical studies." >> >> "There are a lot of differences in gene expression between one healthy >> person and another, so it is challenging to analyze the kinds of >> subtle changes we are seeing and identify what changes are significant >> and what are just background noise," explained Libermann. >> -- >> >> Luke > > |