{"id":8527,"date":"2009-12-05T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-05T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/12\/05\/meditation-can-strengthen-the-body-s-immune-function\/"},"modified":"2009-12-05T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-05T12:00:00","slug":"meditation-can-strengthen-the-body-s-immune-function","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/12\/05\/meditation-can-strengthen-the-body-s-immune-function\/","title":{"rendered":"Meditation Can Strengthen The Body&#8217;s Immune Function"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/health\/chi-tc-health-action-breathe-112.ar0nov29,0,4526770.story\">www.chicagotribune.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, November 29, 2009: Newer research from the University of Wisconsin shows a meditation habit can strengthen the body&#8217;s immune function, plus increase brain performance in the form of electrical activity. It validates the mind-body dynamic of meditation.<\/p>\n<p>To gauge immune function, the researchers measured antibodies in the blood that fight flu and other infections.<\/p>\n<p>Volunteer subjects in the study who meditated had significantly higher levels of these healthful antibodies than non-meditators in just one to two months. And participants who meditated for two months had significantly higher levels of antibodies than individuals meditating for just one month.<\/p>\n<p>The region of the brain most activated by meditation is the left frontal area associated with positive emotions and anxiety reduction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: www.chicagotribune.com CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, November 29, 2009: Newer research from the University of Wisconsin shows a meditation habit can strengthen,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}