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[Don Juan]

Interesting article on exercise and rats.

NY Times blog

“It looks more and more like the positive stress of exercise prepares cells and structures and pathways within the brain so that they’re more equipped to handle stress in other forms”

[Leofisio]

Generalisation of results... This study results don't explain why WE don't get anxious by doing exercise... comparing RATS with HUMANS is a bit weird...

It is interesting that some newspapers prefer to publish results from animal studies (which is very likely to have positive results) instead of real human research... by isolating the "confounding factors" this type of research also drive to a complete flawed conclusion.

Just my view.

Leo

[Goughy]

Suffering from ADHD, I've read about how exercise is one of the best medicines for this. While not necessarily anxiety, it can fall into the same category. I've read of people who have had no help from adhd meds getting relief from exercise.

My wife believes very much in this now days. She can often tell which days I got up for a run/swim/ride, and on a bad day a few weeks ago she told me to just go out and run or something - I was driving her crazy and while she doesn't like how much time I spend training it's better than the alternative when I don't train.

It's like the bad energy gets used up or something.

[felisaffie]

I think getting the bad energy used up is a huge reason why I am so reliant and addicted to exercise. It gives me somewhere to throw all the adrenalin that is coursing through my system non stop from being anxious, like the fight flight system is turned on and I can't turn it off. It is only through exercise I ever have hope of reaching any sense of calm, but some of my runs have been panic attacks so the end product maybe have been calm but there was a nightmare of panic in the middle.

[swaggerer]

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Edited by swaggerer, 19 November 2009 - 01:25 PM.

[Freetoez]

It uses up your excess stress hormones, resets your respiration and heart rate, increased blood flow therefore cerebral oxygenation, even better when done in early morning sunlight to shake off your melatonin and increase serotonin levels.

[Didge]

Exercise works for me when I'm anxious.....and the higher the intensity, the better the results.