Exercise Can Prevent Depression

Even if our gym, rec centre, pool or dance class is unavailable, it’s still possible not to mention crucial, to get your body up and moving. Doing activities that raise your heart rate, challenge your muscles, and move your body beyond its normal range of motion (challenging mobility, coordination, and balance) not only helps you stay fit, but it can also boost your mood, lower stress levels, and even prevent future bouts of depression.

It’s true – even simple aerobic exercises like walking, housework, or playing with your kids or pets can encourage your body to release endorphins. Endorphins are a group of hormones secreted within the brain and nervous system that trigger several almost magical physiological functions. Those wondrous functions include reducing pain and stress, warding off anxiety and feelings of depression, boosting self-esteem, and even improving sleep.

A recent study on exercise and the prevention of depression aimed to determine whether or not exercises provided protection against new-onset depression. It also aimed to pinpoint the intensity and amount of exercise required to gain that protection, and how exactly the protection might work.

To do this the researchers examined 33,908 adults, selected based on having no symptoms of common mental disorders or limiting physical health conditions. The researchers followed them for 11 years. They collected measures of exercise, depression, and anxiety along with a range of potential confounding and mediating factors.

What they concluded was that regular exercise of any intensity does indeed provide protection against future depression. Even relatively modest changes in levels of exercise may have “important public mental health benefits and prevent a surprisingly high number of new cases of depression.”

The study suggests that 12% of future cases of depression could have been prevented if the participants had engaged in at least one (1) hour of physical activity each week.

So, if you are or know someone who is experiencing:

· low energy

· Lack of sleep

· lack of motivation

· Issues with food

· Memory loss

· Lack of mobility

· Chronic pain | disease | health issues

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