Mindfulness meditation improves metabolic profiles in healthy and depressive participants

Abstract

Recently, the increased prevalence of depression largely affects people's quality life and raises social suicide rate. Meanwhile, depression has been reported associated with lipid abnormalities, one of the major risks of cardiovascular disease and diabetes. 1 Hence, the improvement of lipid metabolism is of critical for depressive patients' health care. Meditation, an ancient mind training to improve one's attention and emotional self-regulation,2 has demonstrated as a promising alternative or complementary therapeutics for depression. 3 Previous studies on healthy or patients with medical illnesses have implicated that meditation could balance serum lipid concentrations.