Meditation Can Keep Your Brain Young

An interesting article from Business Insider heralds the practice of meditation in keeping our brains young. It only takes 15 minutes per day.

50-year-olds can have the brains of 25-year-olds if they meditate, memory and decision-making research shows

 

• Neuroscientist Sara Lazar found that people who practiced meditation had more gray matter in the part of the brain linked to decision-making and working memory: the frontal cortex. 
• While most people see their cortexes shrink as they age, 50-year-old meditators in the study had the same amount of gray matter as those half their age.
• Participants in the study averaged about 27 minutes of the habit a day, but other studies suggest that you can see significant positive changes in just 15 minutes a day. 
• Since then, Lazar has studied the effects of meditative states on compassion, finding that mindfulness improved people's moral compass and helped them overcome trauma.