Research on Yoga and its impact on Depression and anxiety
Reducing Allostatic Load in Depression and Anxiety Disorders: Physical Activity and Yoga Practice as Add-On Therapies
Conclusions
Non-pharmacological interventions such as physical activity and yoga practice may exert synergizing effects to antidepressant and anxiolytic treatments. The classical treatment of patients with anxiety disorders and depression is psychotherapy, but pharmacotherapy is recommended when psychiatric symptoms are severe enough to induce a significant functional impairment (86). Antidepressants and/or benzodiazepines are indicated (National for Health and Clinical Excellence, UK guidelines) to treat these disorders (86). However, pharmacological treatments may be associated with adverse side effects. Physical activity and yoga practice have been shown to elicit improvements in anxiety and depression symptoms conducting to a better social, physical, and affective well-being optimizing the pharmacological treatment duration and the risk of pharmacological adverse side effects. However, larger and adequately powered randomized controlled trials are needed to evaluate the combined effect of physical activity on allostatic load and on depression and anxiety. Also, is important to emphasize that future studies are needed to reveal the biological mechanisms involved in the therapeutic actions of physical activity and yoga, in particular on depression and anxiety. Furthermore, stratified interventions according to sex and age should be considered in the future to track the therapies toward an individualized schedule in agreement with the current medical practice.
Frontiers in Psychiatry 2020 https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2020.00501
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