Meditation may slow cognitive aging - study

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'Forever young(er): Meditation might slow the age-related loss of gray matter in the brain'

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Paper:

Luders, E.m, Cherbuin, N. & Kurth, F. (2015) Forever Young(er): potential age-defying effects of long-term meditation on gray matter atrophy. Frontiers in Psychology, In Press.

Two other interesting and relevant studies looking at meditation and grey matter in the brain.

Meditation experience is associated with increased cortical thickness

Previous research indicates that long-term meditation practice is associated with altered resting electroencephalogram patterns, suggestive of long lasting changes in brain activity. We hypothesized that meditation practice might also be associated with ...

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Global and regional alterations of hippocampal anatomy in long-term meditation practitioners - PubMed

Studies linking meditation and brain structure are still relatively sparse, but the hippocampus is consistently implicated as one of the structures altered in meditation practitioners. To explore hippocampal features in the framework of meditation, we analyzed high-resolution structural magnetic...

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

 

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Quick note: Mindfulness reduces the amount of noise in the brain. It effectively replaces a portion of sleep.

Not only does this help functioning. It also reduces need for Glucose consumption and much like sleep. Allows for Cerebal Spinal Fluids to reach these parts of the brain. Consequently reducing Oxidative stress, and primarily the cleanup of Beta Amyloid Plaques responsible for Alzheimer's disease and ultimately the loss of Grey matter. We all have these Beta Amyloids.

Out of the top of my head, no scientific references but this is my 2 cents.
Probably not relevant but I am trying to think of ways to optimize CSF to do even better clean-up.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3277272/pdf/fnhum-06-00018.pdf

 

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Consequently reducing Oxidative stress, and primarily the cleanup of Beta Amyloid Plaques responsible for Alzheimer's disease and ultimately the loss of Grey matter. We all have these Beta Amyloids.

One might enjoy a green tea before or after meditation:

Green tea epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG) reduces beta-amyloid mediated cognitive impairment and modulates tau pathology in Alzheimer transgenic mice.