3 Meaningful Ways Meditation Heals Your Body

Meditation helps slow down the production of cortisol, which is your primary stress hormone. Excess cortisol levels alter immune system responses and suppress the digestive system, the reproductive system and growth processes.

A Harvard team found that mindfulness meditation can actually change the structure of the brain and improve symptoms associated
with depression.

A study from UCLA found that long-term meditators had better-preserved brains than non-meditators as they aged. Participants who’d been meditating for an average of 20 years had more grey matter volume throughout the brain.