Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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5872076 | EXPLORE: The Journal of Science and Healing | 2015 | 8 Pages |
Abstract
Loving-kindness meditation is associated with stress reduction in inexperienced meditators. Experienced meditators had higher nitrate levels, trended toward having higher nitrite levels, and had significantly lower stress levels than inexperienced meditators. Nitric oxide metabolism may be involved in the cardiovascular effects of persistent meditation practice. Larger longitudinal studies would be fruitful to better understand the mechanisms involved.
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Authors
Kathi J. MD, MPH, Daniel Powell, Christine Carlisle PhD, Daniel B. PhD,