A analysis paper from ARPF’s Pink MindTM Challenge was just lately introduced by Dr. MaGloria Borras Boneu, MD on the fifteenth European Congress on Menopause and Andropause in Valencia, Spain. The Pink Mind Challenge was a randomized examine, carried out at UCLA underneath the course of Helen Lavretsky, MD. It concerned ladies over 60 with gentle cardiovascular danger components, weight problems, or reminiscence complaints. Half have been within the reminiscence coaching program and half in a weekly group Kundalini Yoga class and each day Kirtan Kriya meditation follow for 12 weeks at house.
Mind grey matter quantity was assessed in each teams earlier than and after the examine, and the yoga and meditation group demonstrated a statistically vital enhance in mind grey matter quantity in comparison with the reminiscence coaching group. Training Kirtan Kriya revealed many enhancements in cognitive perform and whole-body wellness.
Dr. MaGloria Borras Boneu, MD on the fifteenth European Congress on Menopause and Andropause in Valencia, Spain.
Dr. Borras Boneu introduced this analysis within the Menopause and Climacteric class, which included 106 matters in complete. She selected the Complementary Medication subtopic. Curiously, this was the only real poster specializing in yoga and meditation throughout the whole congress, even throughout the broader way of life part. It may be surmised that even with the confirmed advantages of Kirtan Kriya, the analysis world has but to make amends for the massive significance of way of life intervention methods.
“I’m very enthusiastic about utilizing non-drug approaches to therapeutic and borrowing and studying from historical methods which have been used for 1000’s of years, like yoga, meditation, and sound therapeutic.” – Helen Lavretsky, MD, Major investigator
