{"id":139,"date":"2014-02-23T14:01:27","date_gmt":"2014-02-23T21:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mindfulsilence.com\/blog\/?p=139"},"modified":"2015-05-18T05:11:25","modified_gmt":"2015-05-18T12:11:25","slug":"increased-telomerase-as-a-benefit-of-meditation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mindfulsilence.com\/blog\/?p=139","title":{"rendered":"Increased Telomerase as a benefit of meditation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mindfulsilence.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Reverse-Aging-Telomerase-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-140 alignleft\" alt=\"Reverse-Aging-Telomerase-2\" src=\"http:\/\/mindfulsilence.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Reverse-Aging-Telomerase-2.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"274\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mindfulsilence.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Reverse-Aging-Telomerase-2.jpg 300w, http:\/\/mindfulsilence.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Reverse-Aging-Telomerase-2-164x150.jpg 164w, http:\/\/mindfulsilence.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Reverse-Aging-Telomerase-2-200x183.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The Shamatha Project is the most comprehensive longitudinal study of intensive meditation ever to be undertaken. (According to their own website). \u00a0This project has uncovered an interesting effect of meditation. \u00a0Meditators at the end of a three month intensive meditation were found to an increase in Telomerase activity in white blood cells compared to a control group. \u00a0<a title=\"Benefits of Meditation:Increased Telomerase\" href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/GKxe9S\">Read More Here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Shamatha Project is the most comprehensive longitudinal study of intensive meditation ever to be undertaken. (According to their own website). \u00a0This project has uncovered an interesting effect of meditation. \u00a0Meditators at the end of a three month intensive meditation were found to an increase in Telomerase activity in white \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/mindfulsilence.com\/blog\/?p=139\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scientific-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mindfulsilence.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mindfulsilence.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mindfulsilence.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mindfulsilence.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mindfulsilence.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mindfulsilence.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141,"href":"http:\/\/mindfulsilence.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions\/141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mindfulsilence.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mindfulsilence.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mindfulsilence.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}