Intense meditation may boost immunity: Study
Hindustan TimesAccording to a study conducted by the University of Florida, eight days of intense meditation causes robust activation of the immune system. "What we found was that multiple genes related to the immune system were activated -- dramatically -- when you do Inner Engineering practices," Chandran said. While meditation boosted activity in the 68 interferon-related genes, patients with severe COVID-19 have the opposite problem: a dearth of interferon activity that inhibits virus-fighting. Meditation activated 97 per cent of interferon-response genes, compared with 76 per cent gene activation in mild COVID-19 patients and 31 per cent in severe COVID-19 cases. They also observed the opposite trend for inflammation-signalling genes, where they saw significantly high levels of inflammatory genes in severe COVID-19 patients, compared with mildly ill patients, and no change in inflammatory genes after meditation.
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