Immune system

The Brain-Immune-Gut triangle

Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis

Inflammatory theory of disease

Immunoglobuline A (IgA) and natural killer (NK).

An omics review of effects of various emergent practices on inflammation by Schoenberg et al. (2022) identified various cytokines like CRP, hs-CRP, ASDA-CRP, IL-1B, IL-6, TNF-α, transcription factors like RELA and NF-κB, and genomic molecules like TL and TA, as some of the most important and relevant biomarkers of inflammation at the levels of proteins, genes, and transcription. These are usually lowered by various mind-body interventions: indeed, this review found that "60% of included studies [clinical meditation and yoga interventions] enacted positive effects on inflammation". The authors' conclusion is particularly relevant: “For unified understanding of treatment mechanism in mind body medicine, multi leveled omics that also consider environmental, microbial, and immunological factors might be most enlightening moving forward.”