Exploring the Promise of Mindfulness as Medicine

Buchholz, Laura

doi:10.1001/jama.2015.7023

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“…The presence of MBIs in major healthcare settings is at an all‐time high. Indeed, almost 80% of the 140 accredited medical schools or their associated universities in the United States presently incorporate MBIs into their treatment, education, and/or research programs . Reviews of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) have shown that MBIs can exert some beneficial effects on stress‐related ailments, psychiatric disorders, and disease symptomatology .…”

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“…Indeed, almost 80% of the 140 accredited medical schools or their associated universities in the United States presently incorporate MBIs into their treatment, education, and/or research programs. 4 Reviews of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) have shown that MBIs can exert some beneficial effects on stress-related ailments, psychiatric disorders, and disease symptomatology. [5][6][7][8][9] However, mindfulness meditation is not regarded as a therapeutic panacea for all ailments, and the effects of MBIs on health appear similar in magnitude to those demonstrated by other conventional approaches for treating stress, pain, and illness, including the administration of psychoactive medications, psychotherapy, health education, and behavior modification.…”

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Mindfulness meditation and the immune system: a systematic review of randomized controlled trials

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Slavich

2016

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

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Mindfulness meditation represents a mental training framework for cultivating the state of mindful awareness in daily life. Recently, there has been a surge of interest in how mindfulness meditation improves human health and well-being. Although studies have shown that mindfulness meditation can improve self-reported measures of disease symptomatology, the effect that mindfulness meditation has on biological mechanisms underlying human aging and disease is less clear. To address this issue, we conducted the first comprehensive review of randomized controlled trials examining the effects of mindfulness meditation on immune system parameters, with a specific focus on five outcomes: (1) circulating and stimulated inflammatory proteins, (2) cellular transcription factors and gene expression, (3) immune cell count, (4) immune cell aging, and (5) antibody response. This analysis revealed substantial heterogeneity across studies with respect to patient population, study design, and assay procedures. The findings suggest possible effects of mindfulness meditation on specific markers of inflammation, cell-mediated immunity, and biological aging, but these results are tentative and require further replication. On the basis of this analysis, we describe the limitations of existing work and suggest possible avenues for future research. Mindfulness mediation may be salutogenic for immune system dynamics, but additional work is needed to examine these effects.

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Mindfulness meditation and the immune system: a systematic review of randomized controlled trials

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Slavich

2016

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

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257

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“…Improvements were reported in negative affect, helplessness/hopelessness, anxious preoccupation, 6 coping with cancer, 7 increase in fight spirit, 8 depression, 9 and insomnia. 10 A newer intervention, MBSR, is becoming more proliferative, and currently close to 80% of medical schools offer elements of mindfulness research and training 11 Mindfulness-based stress reduction was developed by Jon Kabat-Zinn 12 and adapted for BCS. 13 MBSR holds promise for treating multiple symptoms experienced by cancer survivors.…”

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Feasibility of the mobile mindfulness‐based stress reduction for breast cancer (mMBSR(BC)) program for symptom improvement among breast cancer survivors

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These results provide preliminary support that the mMBSR(BC) program may be feasible and acceptable, showing a clinical impact on decreasing psychological and physical symptoms. This mobile-based program offers a delivery of a standardized MBSR(BC) intervention to BCS that is convenient for their own schedule while decreasing symptom burden in the survivorship phase after treatment for breast cancer.

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“…The program has gained widespread acceptance. As of 2015, almost 80% of medical schools in the United States implemented some form of mindfulness training for their students [12]. Additionally, research supports the effectiveness of such interventions, as they have been shown to have positive effects on stressrelated ailments, psychiatric disorders, and disease symptomatology [13][14][15].…”

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Meditation and Immune Function: The Impact of Stress Management on the Immune System

Thibodeaux¹,

Rossano²

2018

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As alternative forms of medicine have become increasingly popular, research on the health benefits of meditation has grown. Specifically, Mindfulness Meditation, Transcendental Meditation, and Qigong have been shown to be effective in treating psychological disorders, enhancing immune function, and in delaying disease progression in patients diagnosed with HIV, the varicella-zoster virus, and dermatomyositis. This paper briefly reviews the historical background of the many forms of meditation and examines in detail the effects meditation has on several markers of immune function including Natural Killer cell activity, Blymphocytes, telomerase activity, and CD8+ T-cells.

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Exploring the Promise of Mindfulness as Medicine

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Mindfulness meditation and the immune system: a systematic review of randomized controlled trials

Mindfulness meditation and the immune system: a systematic review of randomized controlled trials

Feasibility of the mobile mindfulness‐based stress reduction for breast cancer (mMBSR(BC)) program for symptom improvement among breast cancer survivors

Meditation and Immune Function: The Impact of Stress Management on the Immune System

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