I thought you might like some info from this study.

The Department of Psychiatry at UCLA studied the effects of mindfulness
meditation training on selected biological markers of HIV-1 progression.

The study tested an 8-week mindfulness-based stress reduction meditation program
(MBSR), as compared to a 1-day control seminar, to assay CD4+ T lymphocyte
counts in stressed HIV infected adults.

A single-blind randomized controlled trial was conducted between November 2005
and December 2007. A diverse community sample of 48 HIV-1 infected adults was
randomized to enter treatment in either an 8-week MBSR or a 1-day control stress
reduction education seminar.

The main outcome measure was the circulating counts of CD4+ T lymphocytes.
Participants in the 1-day control seminar showed declines in CD4+ T lymphocyte
counts, whereas counts among participants in the 8-week MBSR program were
unchanged from baseline to post-intervention (time x treatment condition
interaction, p=.02).

This effect was independent of antiretroviral (ARV) medication use. Additional
analyses indicated that treatment adherence and class attendance mediated the
positive effects of the mindfulness meditation training buffering of the CD4+ T
lymphocyte declines.

The findings of this pilot provide an initial indication that mindfulness
meditation training can buffer CD4+ T lymphocyte declines in HIV-1 infected
adults.

Citation: Creswell JD, Myers HF, Cole SW, Irwin MR. Mindfulness meditation
training effects on CD4+ T lymphocytes in HIV-1 infected adults: a small
randomized controlled trial. Brain, Behavior & Immunity. 2009 Feb;23 (2): pages
184-8. Epub 2008 Jul 19. creswell@...

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18678242?ordinalpos=2&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEn\
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