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Monday, April 19, 2010

Count on Yoga - 30 reasons to do yoga

19. Immune Boon

It's likely that both asana (postures) and pranayama (breathing) improve immune function, but meditation has the strongest scientific support in this area. It appears to have a beneficial effect on the functioning of the immune system, boosting it when needed (for example, raising antibody levels in response to a vaccine) and lowering it when needed (for instance, mitigating an overly aggressive immune function in an autoimmune disease like psoriasis).

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