According to a study conducted at Cedars Sinai Medical Center and reported in Archives of Internal Medicine, heart patients who practiced meditation in addition to following their doctors' traditional prescription of diet, exercise, and medication showed an improvement in insulin function.
As in previous research, this study showed that meditation also lowered blood pressure. The current study, funded by a grant from the National Complementary Medicine and the National Center for Research Resources, is the first to demonstrate an effect of meditation upon insulin levels.
The researchers are uncertain as to the basis for this effect, but they speculated that the most likely mechanism is that meditation decreases the body's stress response, possibly by lowering blood levels of cortisol, the fight-or-flight hormone.
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