Mechanisms of Yogic Practices in Health, Aging, and Disease
Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine A Journal of Translational and Personalized Medicine September 1, 2010 Viktoriya Kuntsevich, William C. Bushell, Neil D. Theise 57 citations
Mechanisms underlying the modulating effects of yogic cognitive-behavioral practices (eg, meditation, yoga asanas, pranayama breathing, caloric restriction) on human physiology can be classified into 4 transduction pathways: humoral factors, nervous system activity, cell trafficking, and bioelectromagnetism. Here we give examples of these transduction pathways and how, through them, yogic...