Coming up on this mini episode of the doctor's pharmacy.

We've known for a long time that meditators have thicker corpus callosums than non-meditators,

but we weren't able to prove if it was causal or correlated.

But now we know that the longer you meditate, the thicker that thing becomes.

Hi, I'm Kea Perot, one of the producers of the doctor's pharmacy podcast.

Stress relief might be the most well-known benefit of a regular meditation practice,

but the physiological benefits don't end there.

Studies show that meditation can grow beneficial gray matter in the brain,

and it can provide the nervous system a rust five times deeper than sleep.

In this mini episode, Dr. Hyman sits down with his meditation teacher

and creator of the Ziva technique, Emily Fletcher.

So let's talk about the science of this, because it's fascinating.

It's not just that it helps you have better performance, better focus,

better energy, better sleep, better sex.

But there's some real biology behind it, which I don't think that monks who developed this

or the babuda was thinking about, but it turns out that it's a very powerful healing tool.

It's really meditation is medicine.

It's not food is medicine, but I also come to realize that meditation is medicine

and that it can be applied for all sorts of issues that people have.

And it actually creates a healing response to the body.

You know, drugs actually shut off a pathway or block something.

They interfere with your biology to stop a symptom.

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