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25

Meditation slows AIDS progression

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US researchers said that Meditation may slow the worsening of AIDS in just a few weeks, perhaps by affecting the immune system.

The team at the University of California Los Angeles said that it’s cheap and pleasant way to help people from incurable and often fatal condition.

They tested a stress-lowering program called mindfulness meditation, defined as practicing an open and receptive awareness of the present moment, avoiding thinking of the past or worrying about the future.

The more often the volunteers meditated, the higher their CD4 T-cell counts — a standard measure of how well the immune system is fighting the AIDS virus. The CD4 counts were measured before and after the two-month program.

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