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Harvard yoga scientists seek proof of meditation benefit
BY MAKIKO KITAMURA | BLOOMBERG
http://www.rep-am.com/lifestyle/health/770019.txt
Scientists are getting close to proving what yogis have held to be true for centuries — yoga and meditation can ward off stress and disease.
John Denninger, a psychiatrist at Harvard Medical School, is leading a five-year study on how the ancient practices affect genes and brain activity in the chronically stressed. His latest work follows a study he and others published earlier this year showing how so-called mind-body techniques can switch on and off some genes linked to stress and immune function.
While hundreds of studies have been conducted on the mental health benefits of yoga and meditation, they have tended to rely on blunt tools like participant questionnaires, as well as heart rate and blood pressure monitoring.
Only recently have neuro- imaging and genomics technology used in Denningers latest studies allowed scientists to measure physiological changes in greater detail.
There is a true biological effect, said Denninger, director of research at the Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, one of Harvard Medical Schools teaching hospitals. The kinds of things that happen when you meditate do have effects throughout the body, not just in the brain.
The government-funded study may persuade more doctors to try an alternative route for tackling the source of a myriad modern ailments. Stress-induced conditions can include everything from hypertension and infertility to depression and even the aging process. They account for 60 to 90 percent of doctors visits in the U.S., according to the Benson-Henry Institute. The World Health Organization estimates stress costs U.S. companies at least $300 billion a year through absenteeism, turn-over and low productivity.
The science is advancing alongside a budding mindfulness movement, which includes meditation devotees such as Bill George, board member of Goldman Sachs Group and Exxon Mobil Corp., and comedian Jerry Seinfeld. News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch revealed on Twitter he is giving meditation a try.
As a psychiatrist specializing in depression, Denninger said he was attracted to mind-body medicine, pioneered in the late 1960s by Harvard professor Herbert Benson, as a possible way to prevent the onset of depression through stress reduction. While treatment with pharmaceuticals is still essential, he sees yoga and meditation as useful additions to his medical arsenal.
It's an interest that dates back to an exchange program he attended in China the summer before entering Harvard as an undergraduate student. At Hangzhou University he trained with a tai chi master every morning for three weeks.
"By the end of my time there, I had gotten through my thick teenage skull that there was something very important about the breath and about inhabiting the present moment," he said.
His current study, to conclude in 2015 with about $3.3 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health, tracks 210 healthy subjects with high levels of reported chronic stress for six months.
They are divided in three groups.
One group with 70 participants perform a form of yoga known as Kundalini, another 70 meditate and the rest listen to stress education audiobooks, all for 20 minutes a day at home. Kundalini is a form of yoga that incorporates meditation, breathing exercises and the singing of mantras in addition to postures. Denninger said it was chosen for the study because of its strong meditation component.
Participants come into the lab for weekly instruction for two months, followed by three sessions where they answer questionnaires, give blood samples used for genomic analysis and undergo neuro-imaging tests.
Immortality Enzyme
Unlike earlier studies, this one is the first to focus on participants with high levels of stress. The study published in May in the medical journal PloS One showed that one session of relaxation-response practice was enough to enhance the expression of genes involved in energy metabolism and insulin secretion and reduce expression of genes linked to inflammatory response and stress. There was an effect even among novices who had never practiced before.
Harvard isnt the only place where scientists have started examining the biology behind yoga.
In a study published last year, scientists at the University of California at Los Angeles and Nobel Prize winner Elizabeth Blackburn found that 12 minutes of daily yoga meditation for eight weeks increased telomerase activity by 43 percent, suggesting an improvement in stress-induced aging. Blackburn of the University of California, San Francisco, shared the Nobel medicine prize in 2009 with Carol Greider and Jack Szostak for research on the telomerase immortality enzyme, which slows the cellular aging process.
Build Resilience
Not all patients will be able to stick to a daily regimen of exercise and relaxation. Nor should they have to, according to Denninger and others. Simply knowing breath-management techniques and having a better understanding of stress can help build resilience.
A certain amount of stress can be helpful, said Sophia Dunn, a clinical psychotherapist who trained at Kings College London. Yoga and meditation are tools for enabling us to swim in difficult waters.
—Editors: Marthe Fourcade, Rick Schine, Bruce Rule
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The Healing Name
topic1161.html
"Satanama", also a longer version of Satan, is an extremely Powerful Sanskrit Mantra which has been used for thousands of years to reach a state of Spiritual Empowerment."--High Priestess Zildar Raasi
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/JoSNewsletter/message/157
At the center of each cell we have a nucleus which contain chromosomes which are made out of DNA this is where we get into Telomeres. Every time the cells divide you lose one of these telomeres, this is the reason for aging on the genetic level.
"Studies at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, along with separate corporate research findings, have determined that Telomerase has unique anti-ageing properties conducive to active longevity. Healthy body cells are programmed to divided many times during a lifetime, but the process of divisions and replication is finite, so that a non-dividing state is ultimately achieved, this is a crucial factor of ageing ..
The divisions potential is controlled by caps at the end of DNA strands [rather like the plastic tips on shoelaces], and these caps are the telomeres. As each cell divides, a piece of telomere is lost, and the dividing process terminates when the telomeres have shortened to an optimum and critical length. There is then no new cell replication and all that follows is deterioration.
Laboratory experiments with tissue sample have now shown that application of the genetic enzyme Telomerase can prevent telomere shortening upon cell division and replication."
Only the reproductive cell don't age, the reason for this they have an enzyme with them called Telomerase that keeps the telomeres from being lost and even lengthens them. Interesting enough this gene for telomerase is with all normal cells but it's been shut off. Right now there are anti-aging drugs based on this that turn the repressor off. And their effects are amazing literally turning back the clock.
It has been found when the number is 5000 telomeres in length you die[you're born with around 10,000 ] it's when the ends of the telomeres really start to unravel and break down that aliments start to manifest more as part of the ageing process.
This enzyme is so powerful:
"Telomerase, which is reckoned to be the `enzyme of immortality', identified in the Science journal of January 1998 as the Fountain of Youth."
In tests done to aged skin cells injected with telomerase the cells regenerated into infant skin cells total bio-genesis they reversed the aging and restored the total youth of the cell.
Stem Cells even within adults are found to contain high levels of telomerase, A Stem Cell is literally an immorality cell, it is been found that normal cells activated with higher level of telomerase morph into stem Cells which have the power to regenerate the entire body.
According to the results of all the studies with telomerase the cell can keep dividing forever without any breakdown without aging.
This means that with proper amount of Telomerase the cell division process is perfected every time not breaking down and losing telomeres with every certain amount of divisions causes the aging process.
A study done on elderly clients suffering from dementia using Kundalini Yoga mantra chant of SA TA NA MA, showed a very important finding:
http://www.alzheimersprevention.org/res ... _study.htm
Study Design
Forty-four caregivers of patients with dementia who were diagnosed and treated at UCLA will be enrolled in the study. Of the 39 caregivers who have already completed the study, 23 practiced Kirtan Kriya, a meditation from the Kundalini yoga tradition, daily for eight weeks. Sixteen participants listened to a relaxation audio tape for 25 minutes per day for eight weeks.
Preliminary Study Findings
Results indicate that:
Both groups demonstrated improvement in depression and anxiety, resilience and perceived burden.
The meditation group improved significantly more compared to the relaxation group on measures of perceived support, physical suffering, energy, emotional and well-being, as well as in cognitive tests of memory and executive function.
A subgroup also showed marked improvement in the reduction of inflammation This groundbreaking work also reveals that Kirtan Kriya increases telomerase, an exquisite marker of health and longevity, in only 12 minutes a day.
Keeping in mind the mainstream Kirtan people just say or sing the mantra not vibrate it properly, but it still provide such a result and only in 12 minutes a day. What would the properly vibrated from do? More much.
The meaning of this mantra is:
Sa means birth (or infinity); Ta means life; Na means death; and Ma means rebirth/regeneration.
Here we have a sound vibration that does what it says literal regeneration and releases the essence of life and regeneration with the body. It turns on the gene instructions to make telomerase.
His Name in our original tongue is the life giving one.
BY MAKIKO KITAMURA | BLOOMBERG
http://www.rep-am.com/lifestyle/health/770019.txt
Scientists are getting close to proving what yogis have held to be true for centuries — yoga and meditation can ward off stress and disease.
John Denninger, a psychiatrist at Harvard Medical School, is leading a five-year study on how the ancient practices affect genes and brain activity in the chronically stressed. His latest work follows a study he and others published earlier this year showing how so-called mind-body techniques can switch on and off some genes linked to stress and immune function.
While hundreds of studies have been conducted on the mental health benefits of yoga and meditation, they have tended to rely on blunt tools like participant questionnaires, as well as heart rate and blood pressure monitoring.
Only recently have neuro- imaging and genomics technology used in Denningers latest studies allowed scientists to measure physiological changes in greater detail.
There is a true biological effect, said Denninger, director of research at the Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, one of Harvard Medical Schools teaching hospitals. The kinds of things that happen when you meditate do have effects throughout the body, not just in the brain.
The government-funded study may persuade more doctors to try an alternative route for tackling the source of a myriad modern ailments. Stress-induced conditions can include everything from hypertension and infertility to depression and even the aging process. They account for 60 to 90 percent of doctors visits in the U.S., according to the Benson-Henry Institute. The World Health Organization estimates stress costs U.S. companies at least $300 billion a year through absenteeism, turn-over and low productivity.
The science is advancing alongside a budding mindfulness movement, which includes meditation devotees such as Bill George, board member of Goldman Sachs Group and Exxon Mobil Corp., and comedian Jerry Seinfeld. News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch revealed on Twitter he is giving meditation a try.
As a psychiatrist specializing in depression, Denninger said he was attracted to mind-body medicine, pioneered in the late 1960s by Harvard professor Herbert Benson, as a possible way to prevent the onset of depression through stress reduction. While treatment with pharmaceuticals is still essential, he sees yoga and meditation as useful additions to his medical arsenal.
It's an interest that dates back to an exchange program he attended in China the summer before entering Harvard as an undergraduate student. At Hangzhou University he trained with a tai chi master every morning for three weeks.
"By the end of my time there, I had gotten through my thick teenage skull that there was something very important about the breath and about inhabiting the present moment," he said.
His current study, to conclude in 2015 with about $3.3 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health, tracks 210 healthy subjects with high levels of reported chronic stress for six months.
They are divided in three groups.
One group with 70 participants perform a form of yoga known as Kundalini, another 70 meditate and the rest listen to stress education audiobooks, all for 20 minutes a day at home. Kundalini is a form of yoga that incorporates meditation, breathing exercises and the singing of mantras in addition to postures. Denninger said it was chosen for the study because of its strong meditation component.
Participants come into the lab for weekly instruction for two months, followed by three sessions where they answer questionnaires, give blood samples used for genomic analysis and undergo neuro-imaging tests.
Immortality Enzyme
Unlike earlier studies, this one is the first to focus on participants with high levels of stress. The study published in May in the medical journal PloS One showed that one session of relaxation-response practice was enough to enhance the expression of genes involved in energy metabolism and insulin secretion and reduce expression of genes linked to inflammatory response and stress. There was an effect even among novices who had never practiced before.
Harvard isnt the only place where scientists have started examining the biology behind yoga.
In a study published last year, scientists at the University of California at Los Angeles and Nobel Prize winner Elizabeth Blackburn found that 12 minutes of daily yoga meditation for eight weeks increased telomerase activity by 43 percent, suggesting an improvement in stress-induced aging. Blackburn of the University of California, San Francisco, shared the Nobel medicine prize in 2009 with Carol Greider and Jack Szostak for research on the telomerase immortality enzyme, which slows the cellular aging process.
Build Resilience
Not all patients will be able to stick to a daily regimen of exercise and relaxation. Nor should they have to, according to Denninger and others. Simply knowing breath-management techniques and having a better understanding of stress can help build resilience.
A certain amount of stress can be helpful, said Sophia Dunn, a clinical psychotherapist who trained at Kings College London. Yoga and meditation are tools for enabling us to swim in difficult waters.
—Editors: Marthe Fourcade, Rick Schine, Bruce Rule
--------------------------------------------
The Healing Name
topic1161.html
"Satanama", also a longer version of Satan, is an extremely Powerful Sanskrit Mantra which has been used for thousands of years to reach a state of Spiritual Empowerment."--High Priestess Zildar Raasi
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/JoSNewsletter/message/157
At the center of each cell we have a nucleus which contain chromosomes which are made out of DNA this is where we get into Telomeres. Every time the cells divide you lose one of these telomeres, this is the reason for aging on the genetic level.
"Studies at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, along with separate corporate research findings, have determined that Telomerase has unique anti-ageing properties conducive to active longevity. Healthy body cells are programmed to divided many times during a lifetime, but the process of divisions and replication is finite, so that a non-dividing state is ultimately achieved, this is a crucial factor of ageing ..
The divisions potential is controlled by caps at the end of DNA strands [rather like the plastic tips on shoelaces], and these caps are the telomeres. As each cell divides, a piece of telomere is lost, and the dividing process terminates when the telomeres have shortened to an optimum and critical length. There is then no new cell replication and all that follows is deterioration.
Laboratory experiments with tissue sample have now shown that application of the genetic enzyme Telomerase can prevent telomere shortening upon cell division and replication."
Only the reproductive cell don't age, the reason for this they have an enzyme with them called Telomerase that keeps the telomeres from being lost and even lengthens them. Interesting enough this gene for telomerase is with all normal cells but it's been shut off. Right now there are anti-aging drugs based on this that turn the repressor off. And their effects are amazing literally turning back the clock.
It has been found when the number is 5000 telomeres in length you die[you're born with around 10,000 ] it's when the ends of the telomeres really start to unravel and break down that aliments start to manifest more as part of the ageing process.
This enzyme is so powerful:
"Telomerase, which is reckoned to be the `enzyme of immortality', identified in the Science journal of January 1998 as the Fountain of Youth."
In tests done to aged skin cells injected with telomerase the cells regenerated into infant skin cells total bio-genesis they reversed the aging and restored the total youth of the cell.
Stem Cells even within adults are found to contain high levels of telomerase, A Stem Cell is literally an immorality cell, it is been found that normal cells activated with higher level of telomerase morph into stem Cells which have the power to regenerate the entire body.
According to the results of all the studies with telomerase the cell can keep dividing forever without any breakdown without aging.
This means that with proper amount of Telomerase the cell division process is perfected every time not breaking down and losing telomeres with every certain amount of divisions causes the aging process.
A study done on elderly clients suffering from dementia using Kundalini Yoga mantra chant of SA TA NA MA, showed a very important finding:
http://www.alzheimersprevention.org/res ... _study.htm
Study Design
Forty-four caregivers of patients with dementia who were diagnosed and treated at UCLA will be enrolled in the study. Of the 39 caregivers who have already completed the study, 23 practiced Kirtan Kriya, a meditation from the Kundalini yoga tradition, daily for eight weeks. Sixteen participants listened to a relaxation audio tape for 25 minutes per day for eight weeks.
Preliminary Study Findings
Results indicate that:
Both groups demonstrated improvement in depression and anxiety, resilience and perceived burden.
The meditation group improved significantly more compared to the relaxation group on measures of perceived support, physical suffering, energy, emotional and well-being, as well as in cognitive tests of memory and executive function.
A subgroup also showed marked improvement in the reduction of inflammation This groundbreaking work also reveals that Kirtan Kriya increases telomerase, an exquisite marker of health and longevity, in only 12 minutes a day.
Keeping in mind the mainstream Kirtan people just say or sing the mantra not vibrate it properly, but it still provide such a result and only in 12 minutes a day. What would the properly vibrated from do? More much.
The meaning of this mantra is:
Sa means birth (or infinity); Ta means life; Na means death; and Ma means rebirth/regeneration.
Here we have a sound vibration that does what it says literal regeneration and releases the essence of life and regeneration with the body. It turns on the gene instructions to make telomerase.
His Name in our original tongue is the life giving one.
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