Impact of Regular Yoga and Meditation on Immune Cell Populations: A Small-Sample, Single-Arm, Pre-Post Interventional Pilot Study
Cureus April 21, 2026 Luis Francisco Castillo-Torres, Selene Velázquez-Moreno, Carla Edith Tovar-Leyva et al.
Background Immunity is the body's ability to resist infectious diseases and is regulated by the immune system, which is divided into innate immunity, with an immediate response, and adaptive immunity, which is more specialized and effective. Lymphocytes, such as CD4+, CD8+, and CD19+, are part of adaptive immunity, while monocytes/macrophages, CD14+, are phagocytic cells of the innate immune...