Forscher der University of California in San Diego haben herausgefunden, dass ein intensiver Rückzug, der mehrere Geist-Körper-Techniken, einschließlich Meditation und Heilpraktiken, kombiniert, schnelle und weitreichende Veränderungen in der Gehirnfunktion und der Blutbiologie hervorruft.
https://today.ucsd.edu/story/meditation-retreat-rapidly-reprograms-body-and-mind
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Researchers at the University of California San Diego have found that an intensive retreat combining multiple mind-body techniques, including meditation and healing practices, produced rapid and wide-ranging changes in brain function and blood biology. The researchers found that the retreat engaged natural physiological pathways promoting neuroplasticity, metabolism, immunity and pain relief. The findings, published in Communications Biology, provide insights into how consciousness and psychological practices can enhance physical health.
Meditation and other mind-body practices have been utilized by cultures worldwide for thousands of years to promote health and wellness; however, the underlying biology of these approaches remains poorly understood. The new study, part of a multi-million-dollar research initiative supported by the InnerScience Research Fund, is the first to comprehensively quantify the biological effects of multiple mind-body techniques administered together over a short period.
„We’ve known for years that practices like meditation can influence health, but what’s striking is that combining multiple mind-body practices into a single retreat produced changes across so many biological systems that we could measure directly in the brain and blood,“ said senior study author Hemal H. Patel, Ph.D., professor of anesthesiology at UC San Diego School of Medicine and research career scientist at the Veterans Affairs San Diego Healthcare System. “This isn’t about just stress relief or relaxation; this is about fundamentally changing how the brain engages with reality and quantifying these changes biologically.”
https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-025-09088-3
Very weird.
This is basically an advert for wellness retreats sold by one of the co-authors (Joe Dispenza). The research involves a couple of pretty cooky research organizations (sample: „We bring together multidisciplinary teams to collect biological and personal data on scientific research study participants – and on energy in the rooms in which we hold retreats – to measure the effects of meditation on biology and global coherence.“), and the senior authors are selling a test that claims to measure your ‚vitality‘ through mitochondrial function.