Time magazine reviews the evidence on exercise for depression, finding that exercise alters brain chemistry such that the brain shows less stress in response to new stimuli. The article compares this to the effect of medication, is as effective and far less costly than medication. “It occurs to us that exercise is the more normal or natural condition and that being sedentary is really the abnormal situation,” says one of the researchers.
Why did an op-ed that looked interesting about the schizophrenia label, appear for five minutes on the right hand pane of the main page, and then disappear? Did it get deleted? I wanted to read it.
On this exercise thing, more stating the obvious. Fitness increases well-being. Who didn’t know that? More of a natural, fighting fit state, less despair, a sense of achievement, less despair.
“Depression”? what’s that? a word that’s been ruined by the quacks. I choose to use despair.
““It occurs to us that exercise is the more normal or natural condition and that being sedentary is really the abnormal situation,” says one of the researchers.”
This is what drives me crazy about academic research.
