Can Meditation Slow Rate of Cellular Aging? Cognitive Stress, Mindfulness, and Telomeres
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Understanding the malleable determinants of cellular aging is critical to understanding human longevity. Telomeres may provide a pathway for exploring this question. Telomeres are the protective caps at the ends of chromosomes. The length of telomeres offers insight into mitotic cell and possibly organismal longevity. Telomere length has now been linked to chronic stress exposure and depression. This raises the question of mechanism: How might cellular aging be modulated by psychological functioning? We consider two psychological processes or states that are in opposition to one another–threat cognition and mindfulness–and their effects on cellular aging. Psychological stress cognitions, particularly appraisals of threat and ruminative thoughts, can lead to prolonged states of reactivity. In contrast, mindfulness meditation techniques appear to shift cognitive appraisals from threat to challenge, decrease ruminative thought, and reduce stress arousal. Mindfulness may also directly increase positive arousal states. We review data linking telomere length to cognitive stress and stress arousal and present new data linking cognitive appraisal to telomere length. Given the pattern of associations revealed so far, we propose that some forms of meditation may have salutary effects on telomere length by reducing cognitive stress and stress arousal and increasing positive states of mind and hormonal factors that may promote telomere maintenance. Aspects of this model are currently being tested in ongoing trials of mindfulness meditation.
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- Authors
- Epel, E., Daubenmier, J., Moskowitz, J. T., Folkman, S., & Blackburn, E.
- Affiliations
- University of California, San Francisco (US)
- Corresponding author
- Epel, Elissa
- Venue
- Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2009-08
- Volume
- 1172
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 34-53
- ISSN
- 0077-8923 (ISSN-L)
- 1749-6632
- PMC
- PMC3057175
- OpenAlex
- W2125332477
- Cited by
- 324
- References
- 149
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- FWCI
- 2.27
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute on Aging (R56AG030424)
- National Institute of Mental Health (K08MH064110)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology › Telomeres, Telomerase, and Senescence
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Behavioral Neuroscience › Stress Responses and Cortisol
- Keywords
- cellular aging, telomere length, mindfulness meditation, cognitive stress, threat appraisal, ruminative thoughts, stress arousal, longevity, positive affect, telomere maintenance, chronic stress, depression
- MeSH terms
- Adaptation, Psychological, Cognition, Humans, Stress, Psychological, Telomere, Cellular Senescence, Meditation
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