Most people will think, well, how old am I, you know, I'm, I've had, you know, 50 birthdays, therefore I'm 50.

Well, that's your chronological age, but how old are you, really?

And that's your biological age, and we can look at all sorts of markers, as you know,

to see how quickly or not the body is breaking down.

Now, what we see in the research is that regular practitioners of this technique age more slowly.

And it makes sense, because we haven't got all that strain and wear into it,

and the body has a recovery mechanism, which is so profound.

That's the voice of Gillian Lavender, a teacher of Vedic meditation.

In one sitting of meditation, the nervous system can achieve a level of profound rest,

many times deeper than sleep.

Doesn't that sound just great?

I'm Lizelle, this is the Lizelle Wellbeing Show, with the podcast helping us all to have a better second half.

And as you may know by now, I'm on a bit of a mission to find ways for all of us to thrive in later life

by investing a little bit of time in our health and our wellbeing today.

And one of the things I think that all of us are probably aware of is the rise in meditation,

or any kind of practice where we're asked to sit still and close our eyes and take some deep breaths

and be more mindful, or maybe go through some ritual or consider, I don't know, focusing on the word

arm or whatever it is, but there seem to be so many different practices out there.

But what are they all? Do they all work? What should we be doing? How long do we need to be doing it?

And ultimately, you know, is it just a fad or is it something that is really going to help us?

I know so many people who swear by it, I'm really interested to hear the science behind it all,

a little bit of evidence-based information as always.

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