{"id":95291,"date":"2019-08-25T22:03:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-26T05:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/study-provides-evidence-that-loving-kindness-meditation-slows-cellular-aging"},"modified":"2019-08-25T22:03:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-26T05:03:00","slug":"study-provides-evidence-that-loving-kindness-meditation-slows-cellular-aging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/study-provides-evidence-that-loving-kindness-meditation-slows-cellular-aging","title":{"rendered":"Study provides evidence that loving-kindness meditation slows cellular aging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/study-provides-evidence-that-loving-kindness-meditation-slows-cellular-aging.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In new research published in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/abs\/pii\/S0306453019300010\"><em>Psychoneuroendocrinology<\/em><\/a>, scientists have shown that loving-kindness meditation has a positive impact at the cellular level. The study examined how different types of meditation influenced telomere length, an indicator of physiological aging.<\/p>\n<p>Telomeres are the end caps of DNA on our chromosomes, which help in DNA replication and get shorter over time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChronological age and biological age are not identical. The former is measured in years, whereas the latter is often indexed by telomere length,\u201d the authors of the new study explained. \u201cTelomeres progressively shorten with cell division (i.e., aging) in general, but may also be replenished, or lengthened, by the enzyme telomerase.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In new research published in Psychoneuroendocrinology, scientists have shown that loving-kindness meditation has a positive impact at the cellular level. The study examined how different types of meditation influenced telomere length, an indicator of physiological aging. Telomeres are the end caps of DNA on our chromosomes, which help in DNA replication and get shorter over [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}