Welcome to Building Your Best Brain Podcast!

In this episode we:

• What is DNA? How is it organized? Where do we get it?

• How is each cell so different but have the exact same DNA?

• Where our genes meet our environment.

• What is meditation?

• Meditation, aging and your epigenetics.

• Epigenetic aging.

• What does this mean when it comes to meditation?

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References:

Chaix R, Álvarez-López MJ, Fagny M, Lémée L, Regnault B, et al. (2017) Epigenetic clock analysis in long-term meditators. Psychoneuroendocrinology: 210-214.

Chaix R, Fagny M, Cosín-Tomás M, Álvarez-López MJ, Lémée L, et al. (2020) Differential DNA methylation in experienced meditators after an intensive day of mindfulness-based practice: Implications for immune-related pathways. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity: 36-44.