Is Exercise The ‘Miracle’ Anti-Depressant Remedy?
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Common wisdom holds that exercise boosts your mood, in addition to benefiting your physical health. Ample evidence seems to suggest that exercise might hold great promise in the treatment of disorders such as depression. So, just how much of a role does exercise play, when it comes to the treatment of Depression & Anxiety?
In the last couple decades, there has been some interest in looking at the mental health value of exercise. Until recently, however, studies investigating the effectiveness of exercise in the treatment of mental health have not been conducted with the same level of scientific rigor as the clinical trials used to bring anti-depressant medications to the market. Limitations of previous studies have included the absence of a control group, individuals not being randomly assigned to study groups, and testing the effects of exercise on individuals who were not suffering from a mood disorder.
