Meditation: a modulator of the immune response to physical stress? A brief report.
British journal of sports medicine December 1995 Erik E Solberg, R Halvorsen, J Sundgot-Borgen et al.
To test the hypothesis that stress reducing techniques such as meditation alter immune responses after strenous physical stress. The hypothesis was tested by studying six meditating and six non-meditating male runners in a concurrent, controlled design. After a period of six months with meditation for the experimental group, blood samples were taken immediately before and after a maximum oxygen...