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How Meditation And Yoga Can Alter The Expression Of Our Genes

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Channel: Krish Murali Eswar · 2017 · Education

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How Meditation And Yoga Can
Alter The Expression Of Our Genes

For those who are still skeptical
about whether mind-body practices
like meditation and yoga actually
work, a new study goes further
in laying out how they affect us —
right down to the level of our genes.

The new review, published in
the journal Frontiers in Immunology,
looks back over a number of
previous studies on the effects
of the different practices
on gene expression.

It turns out that the practices
all seem to have a beneficial
effect on the expression of
a slew of different genes.

And, as you might expect,
the affected genes are generally
those involved in stress and inflammation.

The team searched for studies
that measured the effects of
mind-body interventions including
mindfulness, meditation, yoga,
the relaxation response, Tai Chi
and Qigong on gene expression.

Out of hundreds of studies,
only 18 met all the criteria
for the current analysis.

It turns out that all of the
practices had some sort of
effect on gene expression,
either increasing or decreasing
the expression of individual genes
that were most often related to
stress and inflammation.

The compound that's activated
during times of stress and
controls the expression of
inflammation-related genes was
reduced across multiple studies.

Across all the different practices,
gene expression generally changed
in the direction of reducing the
stress and inflammatory responses,
which, in terms of long-term health,
is generally a good thing.

Millions of people around the world
already enjoy the health benefits
of mind-body interventions like
yoga or meditation, but what they
perhaps don’t realise is that these
benefits begin at a molecular level
and can change the way our
genetic code goes about its business.

These activities are leaving
what we call a molecular signature
in our cells, which reverses the
effect that stress or anxiety
would have on the body by changing
how our genes are expressed.

Put simply, [mind-body interventions]
cause the brain to steer our DNA
processes along a path which
improves our wellbeing.

This isn’t the first study to
suggest that these practices
alter our immune systems.

Richard Davidson, of the University
of Wisconsin-Madison, and Jon Kabat-Zinn,
founder of mindfulness-based
stress reduction (MBSR) at UMass,

showed that people’s immune systems
responded better to the flu vaccine
after people did an eight-week
course of meditation.

More recent work has generally
confirmed the connection.

But what was interesting about the
current study was that the
inflammatory benefits seem to
stretch across different methods,
from MBSR to yoga to pranayama.

Scientists won’t rest until
they suss out exactly how
these practices do what they do –
but since we already know
that they do a lot of good –
and have for thousands of years –
feel free to give whichever
one calls out to you a try.

And the good news is that, as
people have long suspected and
as science is starting to confirm,
they all seem to have benefits
that are measurable and,
very likely, lasting.

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