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With the help of meditation, it is possible to preserve the volume of gray brain a substance that contains neurons. This is the conclusion of researchers from Los Angeles (University of California Medical School), who studied the connection between gray matter and age of people.
The study participants were 50 people who meditated on for several or even many years, and as many people never done it. As it turned out, meditators preserve gray matter, unlike those related to meditation negatively or not at all.
Scientists expected the effect to be negligible and affect just some of the brain areas. The reality of meditation turned out to be amazing and spread to the whole human brain.
It turned out that mindfulness meditation is very helpful in short supply. attention, memory loss, depression, weak immunity and problems with blood pressure.
It helps even overcome cancer. So, women who had breast cancer meditated once a day for eight weeks, after which healthy telomeres, which in DNA perform a protective function.
Regular meditation also helps with post-traumatic stress disorders. Cases have been noted where meditation included and turned off the functions of certain genes associated with the immune system and stressful.
I must say that with the help of modern technology you can to study in detail the physiological changes, occurring in the brain under the influence of mental exercises. Therefore, do not trust the results of the study do not have to. By the way, there is a list of the most useful products for the brain, this is also an option to improve its performance.
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