Meditation and Endocrine Health and Wellbeing

There is increasing interest in the practice of meditation and its effects on physiological markers of stress, meditated largely by the endocrine system, though the precise links and mechanisms by which these occur remain unclear. Most studies have investigated the effects of meditation practice on the hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis, with comparatively little attention paid to other parts of the endocrine system. Growing but limited...