Chronic pain is known to cause brain anatomy changes and impairments, but yoga can be an important tool for preventing or even reversing the effects of chronic pain on the brain, according to a National Institutes of Health (NIH) official speaking at the American Pain Society’s annual meeting.
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We’ve written before about how yoga can help you lose weight, and there might be a lot more to it than most people think.
Hypertension, or high blood pressure, remains the most common reason for office visits to physicians for non-pregnant adults in the United States. Some 50 million Americans are believed to have hypertension, and control of this disease is far from adequate. As a result, hypertension will likely remain the most common risk factor for stroke, heart failure, and kidney disease for years to come. Could yoga help?
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When we want to lose weight and think about starting an exercise program, we usually think of something aerobic, that burns calories. Yoga, with its slow movements and intricate positions, is about the last type of exercise we consider. But it turns out that yoga not only helps people lose weight, it helps keep it off.
Researchers questioned 15,500 men and woman between the ages of 45 and 55 and asked them if they took yoga and if so, how long they?d been practicing it. Yoga practice was defined as doing yoga for at least half an hour once a week for four or more years.
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