Episode 9 - Use Your Mind to Keep Your Body in Check

In this episode...

The guys dive into mental fitness, aka meditation.  It's been shown that meditation can help:

• Anxiety
• Asthma
• Cancer
• Chronic Pain
• Depression
• Heart Disease
• High Blood Pressure
• Tension Headache

Seems like that little jerk of a stress hormone cortisol can sometimes get out of control and meditation can wrangle it back in a bit and help prevent a magnitude of issues.  Whether it's mantra meditation (repetitive words or phrases) or mindful meditation (paying attention to the breath and being in the moment) there's a ton of benefits.

 

Mentioned:

2013 study on effect of meditation on cortisol levels

2011 study on telomerase activity

The Mind Illuminated by John Yates

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