KABC Reports the Benefits of Kirtan Kriya Meditation for Caregivers

July 27, 2012

Dr. Helen Lavretsky, professor of psychiatry at the UCLA Semel Institute and director of the Late-Life Depression, Stress, and Wellness Research Program, was featured in a July26 KABC—Channel 7 news segment.  The story highlights her recent research on stressed caregivers showing the positive effect of a 12-minute session of an ancient practice of Kirtan Kriya Meditation had on the genetic expressions in chromosomes which can slow the body's inflammatory processes that cause disease.