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Over 80 million Americans suffer from high blood pressure, heart disease, and other stress related disorders. More and more students can't even read their books due to problems like ADD. Yet modern medicine has no strategy to eliminate the causes of disease and increase happiness and creativity in the home and in business. Its drug-oriented approach causes side effects, produces imbalance, and decreases longevity. Today, we need greater education and use of proven treatments that are based on a more holistic understanding of the heart and mind.... Visit Mind Heart Health and develop the full potential of your mind and body and discover natural treatments for stress related medical problems. Heart disease patients who practiced meditation for four months showed slight improvements in blood pressure and insulin levels, a small, government-funded study found. Patients who learned Transcendental Meditation did better on those measures than patients who spent the same amount of time on lectures, discussions and homework assignments about the effects of stress, diet and exercise on the heart. The 103 heart patients participating in the study received regular medical care, including drugs for lowering cholesterol and blood pressure. Adding meditation had "a strong enough effect that we could show a benefit over traditional health care, and traditional health care is pretty good now," said study co-author Dr. Noel Bairey Merz of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. "I think it's a testimony to this intervention that we could see anything." Some of the researchers involved are affiliated with the organization that teaches Transcendental Meditation around the world, raising questions about potential bias, said Jim Lane of Duke University School of Medicine, who had no part in the study. The research team included doctors from the Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa. The school was founded by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, who started a movement to teach meditation worldwide and was a guru to the Beatles and the Beach Boys. The researchers speculated that the difference is caused by meditation decreasing the body's natural reaction to stress, possibly by lowering blood levels of the "fight or flight" hormone cortisol. Merz said the study was designed to measure cortisol levels in saliva, but the samples dried up because they were not stored correctly.
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