Ketosis with enhanced GABAergic tone promotes physiological changes in transcendental meditation

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 660-662

  Elias, A N ^a   Guich, S ^a   Wilson, A F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; GLUTAMIC ACID; HYPOPHYSIS HORMONE; KETONE;

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID UPTAKE; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; HORMONE RELEASE; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS; HYPOTHALAMUS; KETOACIDOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; SHORT SURVEY; SYNAPTOSOME; TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION;

EID: 0034063345     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1054/mehy.1999.0921     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. Yogi, M. M. The Science of Being and Art of Living. London, International SRM Publishing, 1966.
2. Kanellakos, D. Lukas, J. S. The Psychobiology of Transcendental Meditation: A Literature Review. Menlo Park, Benjamin, 1974.
3. Wallace R. K., Benson H., Wilson A. F. A wakeful hypometabolic state. Am J Physiol. 221:1971;795-799.
4. Jevning R., Wilson A. F., Smith W. R., Morton M. E. Redistribution of blood flow in acute hypometabolic activity. Am J Physiol. 235:1978;R89-R92.
5. Jevning R., Wells I., Wilson A. F., Guich S. Plasma thyroid hormones, thyroid stimulating hormone, and insulin during acute metabolic states in man. Physiol Behav. 40:1987;603-606.
6. Mills P. J., Schneider R. H., Hill D., Walton K. G., Wallace R. K. Beta-adrenergic receptor sensitivity in subjects practicing transcendental meditation. Psychosom Res. 34:1990;29-33.
7. Jevning R., Wilson A. F., Pirkle H., O'Halloran J. P., Walsh J. N. Metabolic control in a state of decreased activation: modulation of red cell metabolism. Am J Physiol. 245:1983;C457-C461.
8. Jevning R., Wilson A. F., Pirkle H., Guich S., Walsh R. N. Modulation of red cell metabolism by states of decreased activation: comparison between states. Physiol Behav. 35:1985;679-682.
9. Jevning R., Wilson A. F., Davidson J. M. Adrenocortical activity during meditation. Horm Behav. 10:1978;54-60.
10. Jevning R., Wilson A. F., Vanderlaan E. F. Plasma prolactin and growth hormone during meditation. Psychosom Med. 40:1978;329-222.
11. Jevning R., Pirkle H. C., Wilson A. F. Behavioral increase of plasma phenylalanine concentration. Physiol Behav. 19:1977;611-614.
12. Jevning R., Wilson A. F., O'Halloran I. P. Muscle and skin blood flow and metabolism during states of decreased metabolism. Physiol Behav. 29:1982;343-348.
13. Wilson A. F., Jevning R., Guich S. Marked reduction of forearm carbon dioxide production during states of decreased metabolism. Physiol Behav. 41:1987;347-352.
14. Elias A. N., Wilson A. F. Serum hormonal concentration following transcendental meditation - potential role of gamma amino butyric acid. Med Hypotheses. 44:1995;287-291.
15. Jevning R., Wilson A. F. Forearm blood flow and metabolism during states of stylized and unstylized decreased activation. Am J Physiol. 245:1983;RI10-RI16.
16. O'Halloran I. P., Jevning R., Wilson A. F., Skowsky R., Walsh R. N., Alexander C. Hormonal control in a state of decreased activation: Potentiation of arginine vasopressin secretion. Physiol Behav. 35:1985;591-595.
17. Vannucci S. J., Clark R. R., Koehler-Stec E. Glucose transporter expression in brain: Relationship to cerebral glucose utilization. Dev Neurosci. 20:1998;369-379.
18. Aoki T. T. Metabolic adaptations to starvation, semistarvation, and carbohydrate restriction. Prog Clin Biol Res. 67:1981;161-177.
19. Sivitz W. I., DeSautel S. L., Kayano T., Bell G. I., Pessin J. E. Regulation of glucose transporter messenger RNA in insulin-deficient states. Nature. 340:1989;72-74.
20. Swink T. D., Vining E. P. The ketogenic diet: 1997. Adv Pediatr. 44:1997;297-329.
21. Erecifiska M., Nelson D., Yevgeny D., Yudkoff M. Regulation of GABA level in rat brain synaptosomes: Fluxes through enzymes of the GABA shunt and effects of glutamate, calcium, and ketone bodies. J Neurochemistry. 67:1996;2325-2334.
22. Daikhin Y., Yudkoff M. Ketone bodies in brain glutamate and GABA metabolism. Dev Neurosci. 20:1998;358-364.