Transcendental meditation is a potential non-drug treatment for heart disease, according to a visiting US physician and natural medicine researcher.
Dr Robert Schneider is director of the Institute of Natural Medicine and Prevention at the Maharishi University of Management. He has spent the past 20 years researching non-drug approaches to the prevention and treatment of heart disease and will present some of his findings at a seminar at the RMIT Bundoora campus on October 14.
Dr Schneider’s subjects will include the benefits of naturally lowering blood pressure to prevent heart disease.
In December’s American Heart Association journal Circulation, he published findings showing a 48 per cent reduction in mortality in heart attack and stroke patients who used transcendental meditation for an average of five years.
Dr Schneider’s pursuit of natural medicines was based on creating a “bigger armament, a bigger base of tools” to fight heart disease.
