Research on the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi Programs

2 papers found

• 1987· Empirical· Collected Papers Vol. 5
  Glaser, J. L.; Brind, J. L.; Eisner, M. J.; Dillbeck, M. C.; Vogelman, J. H.; and Wallace, R. K. Elevated serum dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate levels in older practitioners of the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi Program. Findings presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Washington, DC, USA, November 1986. Abstract of these findings published in AGE 10(4): 160, 1987.

  Older participants in the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi program showed hormone levels indicative of younger biological age.

  • Health—Aging: Hormone Levels Indicating Younger Biological Age
• 1992· Journal of Behavioral Medicine· Empirical· Collected Papers Vol. 6
  Glaser, J. L.; Brind, J. L.; Vogelman, J. H.; Eisner, M. J.; Dillbeck, M. C.; Wallace, R. K.; and Orentreich, N. Elevated serum dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate levels in practitioners of the Transcendental Meditation (TM) and TM-Sidhi program. Revised and updated version of paper that appeared in Journal of Behavioral Medicine 15: 327–341, 1992.

  This study found that older persons who participate in the Transcendental Meditation program, and female participants at all age levels, show biochemical indications of greater youthfulness, as measured by higher levels of serum dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate.

  • Biochemical: Increased DHEA-S Levels in Female and Older Male Practitioners of the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi program