Exercise as an anti-depressant

Exercise is a truly powerful anti-depressant.

Not just in general or from a preventative perspective, but also from a clinical perspective in patients that are actually diagnosed with depression.

🧾According to the data of these three meta-analyses, exercise does:

• Directly improve depressive symptoms.

• Is better than usual care (including psychological interventions).

• Can keep up with the effect of anti-depressant drugs.

• Further improves the effects of anti-depressant drugs.

  
  

👇🏼 Does exercise help keep you sane and darker thoughts at bay? Let us know.

Artwork by Ajgie

References

1. Josefsson and colleagues PMID: 23362828

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/sms.12050 

2. Schuch and colleagues PMID: 26978184

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022395616300383?via%3Dihub 

3. Kvam and colleagues PMID: 27253219

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0165032715314221?via%3Dihub