New research shows that mindfulness meditation training reduces interleukin-6, an inflammatory health biomarker, in high-stress, unemployed adults.
The biological health-related benefits occur because mindfulness meditation training alters brain network functional connectivity patterns, according to the study, which was published in Biological Psychiatry.
“We’ve now seen that mindfulness meditation training can reduce inflammatory biomarkers in several initial studies, and this new work sheds light into what mindfulness training is doing to the brain to produce these inflammatory health benefits,” said Dr. David Creswell, lead author and associate professor of psychology in the Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University.
[For more of this story, written by Janice Wood, go to http://psychcentral.com/news/2...es-health/98722.html]
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