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Chapter 10: How Meditation and
Mindfulness Boost Health
Slow breathing, yoga rats and horror-stricken leukocytes
Meditation
=
longer telomeres
Long-term meditators have longer telomeres. They also breathe slower and blink less
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Watch Jon Kabat-Zinn talk about mindfluness
Thorbjørn Knudsen, yoga master turned business school prof, at a lab in Germany undergoing a brain activity scan while engaged in yoga breathing
At Oxford MediStress office in London -- ready for my leukocyte-meditation challenge
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Are some types of yoga / meditation better for longevity?
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Can a gratitude journal really help you live to 100?
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How does meditation change your brain?
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Why can meditation help you avoid flu?
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Why is watching horror movies a bad idea when you are sick?
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Answers to these questions (and much more!) in the book
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