Yoga Can Help Turn Your Health Around
Yoga is gentler form of exercise that can benefit a number of common health problems. It is very useful for promoting flexibility and core muscle strength, and has been proven beneficial to those who suffer with back pain. I know about that 1st hand.
Yoga can also help one turn health around if too overweight to engage in more strenuous types of exercise.
People with heart problems may also want to consider Yoga.
Researchers have confirmed its beneficial impact on the heart. For example, a Y 2013 study found that regular Yoga classes can significantly reduce symptoms associated with atrial fibrillation, a condition typically treated with beta blockers. These drugs do not work for all patients and come with many side effects, including heart attack and stroke, type 2 diabetes, and sexual dysfunction, just to name a few.
Considering the hazards of the drug paradigm, it makes good sense to look into safer alternatives and Yoga can offer quite a bit of relief. For the 1st 3 months of the study, the participants’ heart symptoms, blood pressure, heart rate, anxiety and depression levels, and general quality of life were assessed and tracked. During the 2nd phase, the participants took Yoga classes at least 2X a week for 3 months, while still tracking their symptoms.
At the end of the study, the number of times participants reported heart quivering (confirmed by heart monitor), dropped by 50%. Their average heart rate also fell from an average of 67 beats per minute during the 1st 3 months, to 61 to 62 beats per minute post-Yoga. Participants also reported feeling less anxiety and depression. Anxiety scores fell from an average of 34, on a scale of 20 to 80 to an average of 25.
Interestingly, research published in Y 2012 shows that Yoga also has a beneficial impact on leptin, a hormone that plays a Key role in regulating energy intake and energy expenditure. According to the authors, expert Yoga practitioners had 36% higher leptin levels compared to novices, and this can translate into both weight loss and improved health.
Leptin’s signals influences things like hunger, fat storage, reproduction, and cellular maintenance and repair.
So, leptin is the way that your fat stores speak to your brain to let your brain know how much energy is available and, most importantly, what to do with it. Along with insulin, leptin resistance is associated with obesity, and impaired insulin/leptin signaling is a foundational core of most chronic degenerative diseases.
Daily movement and exercise becomes increasingly important with age. Unfortunately, as health starts to falter, one may be tempted to do less and less, but this is a sure way to ensure to never get better… If you are elderly and suffer from one or more chronic health problems, be it obesity, diabetes, heart disease, cancer, osteoarthritis, or any other chronic disease, it is advised to consider some form of low-impact exercise, plus daily walking.
Research and experience both confirm that walking is powerful medicine, no matter what age.
Younger people would do well to pick up the pace and intensity, while older folks may simply focus on staying in motion for as long as possible each day. Add to this proper posture, and walking can suddenly take you even further, improving your workout, your cardiovascular benefits, and your muscle tone, while decreasing pain and stresses on your joints. And always eat real food.
Eat healthy, Be healthy, Live lively.
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Paul Ebeling
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