ExclusiveHow Does Mindfulness Meditation Compare to Antidepressants for Anxiety? Can It Treat Diabetes?｜Vital Signs

It’s widely known that mindfulness meditation can help one relax, but just how effective is it? Does it really stand up to standard clinical treatments—like antidepressants—for anxiety and depression?

Professor Diane Reibel has focused much of her research on the treatment potential of mindfulness. Her work, spanning decades, has helped shift the concept of mindfulness from the mystical to the mainstream health setting.

What does Ms. Reibel’s research into diabetes reveal about the power of meditation to change body biochemistry?

Director of the Marcus Institute of Integrative Health’s mindfulness center, Ms. Reibel uses mindfulness in her day-to-day life.

During the interview, she explains how tuning into sound and sensation is helping to ground her in the moment and to keep anxiety at bay.

On #VitalSigns, host Brendon Fallon asks Ms. Reibel for the scientific proof that mindfulness works as a clinical treatment.

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