Biological age measures how old a person
is physiologically. As a group, long-term meditators who had been practicing
Transcendental Meditation for more than 5 years were physiologically 12
years younger than their chronological age, as measured by reduction of
blood pressure, and better near-point vision and auditory discrimination.
Short-term meditators were physiologically 5 years younger than their chronological
age. The study controlled for the effects of diet and exercise.
The Effects of the Transcendental
Meditation and TM-Sidhi program on the aging process, International Journal of Neuroscience
16 (1): 53–58, 1982.
