Researchers say they've taken a significant advance in the understanding of how relaxation techniques such as meditation, prayer and yoga improve health: by changing patterns of gene activity that affect how the body responds to stress. They found that when the relaxation response is activated (by means of meditation), stress genes can at least temporarily reduce their activity. The recent study is the first comprehensive investigation into the effect of mental states upon gene function.
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