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Yoga may bring long-term benefits for people with depression
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More than half of depression sufferers could see their symptoms improve by over 50% with weekly yoga classes, according to the largest study of its kind.
- Weekly yoga classes can also improve social functioning and overall health
- Effects are only seen after six months, suggesting yoga's benefits accumulate
- Health education classes only half depression symptoms in 31% of cases
- Yoga is thought to change hormone levels,reducing both stress and anxiety
Yoga can ease depression symptoms, according to the largest study to ever investigate the link between the exercise and the mental health disorder.
More than half of sufferers who take weekly yoga classes experience a minimum 50 per cent reduction in their symptoms, the research added. They also report both improved social functioning and overall health.
The effect did not occur until six months into starting the exercise, suggesting that the benefits of yoga may accumulate over time.
A previous review found that the breathing exercises involved in yoga change the hormone levels in the body, leading to reduced stress and anxiety.
Researchers from across the US analysed the effect of a specific type of yoga, known as hatha, on 63 patients suffering from severe depression.
Results, published in Psychological Medicine, were compared against 59 severely depressed patients who took health education classes. All participants were taking antidepressants.
The researchers analysed for the patients for 10 weeks, with two follow-up periods at three and six months.
No effect was seen at 10 weeks.
Yet, at six months, 51 per cent of yoga patients reported at least a 50 per cent improvement in their symptoms versus 31 per cent of those taking the health education classes.
Study author Dr Lisa Uebelacker, from Brown University, said: 'We hypothesized that yoga participants would show lower depression severity over time, as well as better social and role functioning, better general health perceptions and physical functioning, and less physical pain relative to the control group. We found that yoga did indeed have an impact on depression symptoms.'
This particular study did not specify why yoga reduces depression.
Yet, a review of 15 studies conducted by King’s College London earlier this year found women suffering from premenstrual tension have a significant reduction in anxiety, stress and mood swings if they take up yoga.
Yoga cuts levels of the stress hormone cortisol and may improve concentration by focusing on breathing and poses, the researchers said.
Source: dailymail.co.uk
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