While we've known for a long time that exercise can improve your mood and that it offers a bunch of other health benefits, a new study suggests that it should be thought of as a serious treatment option for depression.
that the data showed exercise provided"somewhat better" outcomes than treatments regularly prescribed for depression today, like medicine and talk therapy., meaning it gathered data from many other studies to make stronger conclusions about the effects of exercise on depression, drawing on many patient groups from various countries.that their findings were the largest study to date of the effect of exercise on depression and depressive symptoms.
The researchers, who came from institutions like the University of Potsdam in Germany, the University of Santa Maria in Brazil, and the University of Manchester in England, among other places, said that future studies should look at whether exercise is effective as a long-term treatment and whether it may not be a good treatment for certain groups.
Any kind of exercise helps, though certain kinds are more effective at treating depression than others
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