Spiritual Forum

'Meditation slashes risk of heart attack, stroke and death in heart disease patients by half'

Posted by Jazmin on December 3, 2009 at 8:55am in Food, Health and Nutrition
The following article by S. L. Baker was transcribed verbatim from:http://www.naturalnews.com/027646_meditation_heart_attack.htmlMeditation slashes risk of heart attack, stroke and death in heart disease patients by halfThursday, December 03, 2009 by: S. L. Baker, features writer(NaturalNews) Transcendental Meditation (TM) first became well-known in the U.S. during the 1960s when the Beatles showed interest in studying the stress-reducing technique. But meditation hasn't gone the way of love beads and flower power since then. In fact, various techniques, including TM, have received serious scientific scrutiny and researchers have documented many health benefits of meditation.Now a $3.8 million study funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) has reached a first-ever finding: patients with coronary heart disease who practiced TM had a nearly 50 percent lower rate of heart attack, stroke, and death compared to a matched group that didn't meditate.The results of the study, which was conducted at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee in collaboration with the Institute for Natural Medicine and Prevention at Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa, were presented recently at the annual meeting of the American Heart Association in Orlando, Florida. "Previous research on Transcendental Meditation has shown reductions in blood pressure, psychological stress, and other risk factors for heart disease, irrespective of ethnicity," Robert Schneider, M.D., the study's lead author and director of the Center for Natural Medicine and Prevention, said in a statement to the media. "But this is the first controlled clinical trial to show that long-term practice of this particular stress reduction program reduces the incidence of clinical cardiovascular events, that is heart attacks, strokes and mortality."The randomized controlled trial followed 201 African American men and women for nine years. The research subjects had an average age of 59 and all were diagnosed with narrowing of arteries in their hearts. The study participants continued taking their regular medications and continued other usual medical care during the study. But half were randomly assigned to a group that practiced stress reducing TM and the other half were placed in a non-meditating group that received health education classes covering standard cardiovascular risk factors.In addition to a dramatic reduction in the risk of death, heart attacks, and strokes in the TM group, the researchers found a clinically significant reduction in blood pressure. Mediation also reduced psychological stress in a sub-group of patients who were experiencing high levels of anxiety and other signs of stress."This study is an example of the contribution of a lifestyle intervention -- stress management -- to the prevention of cardiovascular disease in high-risk patients," Theodore Kotchen, M.D., co-author of the study and associate dean for clinical research at the Medical College, said in the press statement.For more information:http://www.mcw.edu/Releases/2009Rel...
Views: 21

You need to be a member of Ashtar Command - Spiritual Community to add comments!

Join Ashtar Command - Spiritual Community

Tags: heartattack, heartdisease, meditation, stroke, tm, transcendentalmeditation
Email me when people reply –
Follow

Replies

  • ☼Petar▲Truthseeker December 3, 2009 at 9:32pm
    HAhahahaha.... yeah and healthy food isn't healthy XD
    I just read the title...
This reply was deleted.

Latest Discussion

Most Popular Discussion

Topics by Tags

Monthly Archives

Latest Activity

AlternateEarth posted a blog post
The Vaccine Police: Exposing the measles hoax and depopulation agenda
The Vaccine Police: Exposing the measles hoax and depopulation agenda01/19/2026 // Belle Carter // 1.1K Views Tags: . vaccines, badhealth, badmedicine, Big Pharma, Christopher Key, conspiracy, Dangerous Medicine, deception, depopulation, Fact…
See More
7 hours ago
Drekx Omega posted a status
Trump to veto Starmer's stitch-up deal with Mauritius..BRAVO..You get Greenland, we keep Chagos islands..🇬🇧🇮🇴
9 hours ago
Drekx Omega commented on Drekx Omega's blog post One Rebel Star Should Fall From The EU Flag's Circular Constellation and Rise Anew With Greater and Brighter Light
"More discussion, surrounding this hoped for, Chagos stitch-up deal, kybosh.....Note how fiendish the Red Chinese are, as backers of their allies in Mauritius...?? China wants to halt Anglo-American Diego Garcia operations, by banning UK and US…"
9 hours ago
Drekx Omega commented on Drekx Omega's blog post One Rebel Star Should Fall From The EU Flag's Circular Constellation and Rise Anew With Greater and Brighter Light
"✌🏻✌🏿🇬🇧🇮🇴Ahha..!! Now this is good news, for all patriots in the UK, Chagos islands and US......The Starmer sellout Chagos deal, HAS NOT YET BEEN RATIFIED by the US and now that we have made POTUS fully aware of all the issues, he won't be signing up…"
10 hours ago
Drekx Omega commented on Drekx Omega's blog post One Rebel Star Should Fall From The EU Flag's Circular Constellation and Rise Anew With Greater and Brighter Light
"At last, POTUS has challenged comrade Starmer, for stupidly giving up the Indian ocean Chagos islands, to Mauritius, for no benefit to UK/US security and as he says, "NO REASON WHATSOEVER." And we British taxpayers have to pay for giving up our own…"
13 hours ago
rev.joshua skirvin posted a status
Mother ship found in Greenland !

"This Is Why Greenland Is SO Important''..." | Ashtar Command
GFL Station- you-tube
152K subscri
15 hours ago
rev.joshua skirvin commented on rev.joshua skirvin's blog post January 19, 2026: Waiting In The Waiting Game [videos] Starship Earth: The Big Picture.
"Funny, how both of these post happen at the same time. The video below is well worth seeing,as a back up from this one above that google messed up as you can see the vids did not show up

"This Is Why Greenland Is SO Important..." | Ashtar…"
16 hours ago
rev.joshua skirvin posted a blog post
January 19, 2026: Waiting In The Waiting Game [videos] Starship Earth: The Big Picture.
   The battlefield is certainly getting interesting as 5th Dimensional Warfare and higher command the events. There’s also a lot of talk about ice. There was Susie Wiles the “Ice Maiden”, and followed by ICE agents rounding up illegal immigrants,…
See More
17 hours ago
More…

New Blog Posts