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Mind controls body in extreme experiments by William J. Cromie, Harvard University Gazette:
The researchers also made measurements on practitioners of other forms of advanced meditation in Sikkim, India. They were astonished to find that these monks could lower their metabolism by 64 percent. “It was an astounding, breathtaking [no pun intended] result,” Benson exclaims.
To put that decrease in perspective, metabolism, or oxygen consumption, drops only 10-15 percent in sleep and about 17 percent during simple meditation.
In my opinion, much more evidence is needed to take these claims seriously but still it is interesting.
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