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Daily Meditation May Help Protect the Brain From Aging, Study of Buddhist Monk’s Brain Suggests

Researchers from University of Wisconsin-Madison and Harvard Medical School scanned Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche’s brain four times over 14 years—in 2002 when he was 27 years old; 2005 when he was 30; 2007 when he was 32; and 2016 when he was 41.