The basis of the results in this report might be increased dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA). It is known that mindfulness / meditation increases DHEA (Glaser et al., 1992; Manzaneque et al., 2011).
It is my hypothesis that the placebo effect results from increased DHEA. Possible Explanation of Failure to Thrive Infants May Have a Reduced Melatonin -- DHEA Cycle"...a basis of the placebo effect. at: http://anthropo...
The basis of the results in this report might be increased dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA). It is known that mindfulness / meditation increases DHEA (Glaser et al., 1992; Manzaneque et al., 2011).
It is my hypothesis that the placebo effect results from increased DHEA. Possible Explanation of Failure to Thrive Infants May Have a Reduced Melatonin -- DHEA Cycle"...a basis of the placebo effect. at: http://anthropogeny.com/Failure%20to%20Thrive.htm.
Meditation may simply produce more DHEA than the placebo effect because meditation is a targeted, practiced method of specifically increasing dehydroepiandrosterone.
References
Glaser JL, Brind JL, Vogelman JH, Eisner MJ, Dillbeck MC, Wallace RK, Chopra D, Orentreich N. Elevated serum dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate levels in practitioners of the Transcendental Meditation (TM) and TM-Sidhi programs. J Behav Med. 1992 Aug;15(4):327-41.
Manzaneque, J. M., Vera, F. M., Ramos, N. S., Godoy, Y. A., Rodriguez, F. M., Blanca, M. J., Fernandez, A. and Enguix, A. (2011), Psychobiological modulation in anxious and depressed patients after a mindfulness meditation programme: a pilot study. Stress and Health, 27: 216???222
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