Yoga is a best medicine for physical and mental fitness as it provides both physical exercise and meditation respectively. It makes us relaxed. Consider yoga as a facilitator of mental fitness. What do you get out of it? Mental fitness seems to cut off depression. Yes, it works to curtail depression. Depression can in turn lead to cardiac diseases. You can follow simple yoga exercises at home to curb depression. Such as, using reclining bound angle pose, reclining big toe pose, downward facing dog and standing forward bend. This piece of information is provided by Nine Dejanvier, beautifully describes the ways of performing the above given exercises. Depressed individuals can be benefited by these exercises but before following them it is necessary to consult specialists.
Apr, 2012
ArchivesExercise and prevent depression and heart diseases
People often found to be affected with depression. And depression, in turn leads to cardiac problems. What can be the remedy to curb both these problems? The most simple and easy remedy can be ‘physical exercises’. Exercise can curtail depression and moreover heart risks. Instead of taking anti-depressants one need to develop an interest for exercising which not only makes your body fit and healthy but also helps to fight diseases. It is true that anti-depressants help to cut depression immediately but also provides side-effects in long term. In contrast, exercise is free from any ill-effects and one can perform it easily. One can start with simple and light exercise in a routine.
Save your child form being an ‘Infant Adult’!
Children look good when they stay gay and playful. Think, what will happen if they get confused, fear would certainly grip them and rip their lives apart with depression. This mental illness is rising at a high rate amongst children. The reasons can be separation of parents and ill-effects of junk food, lack of proper care, poor diet and rise of video games, which apparently is making them ‘infant adults’. So, parents need to take proper care of their children, provide child with nutrition rich diet and emphasize your child to indlulge in outdoor games rather than indoor games like videogames. Moreover, they must give due time to their children so that they can stay away from depression.
Sleep Disorder May Lead to Depression!
Sleep is one of the essential components of a healthy body. Any disorder in sleep can disrupt your mental health. Most of the people get affected with sleep disorder due to one or more reasons. Depression is one such illness that can grip you due to sleeping disorder. Sleep disorder involves breathing with pause or irregular breathing. People with worse sleep disorders are more likely to develop depression up to 2.6 percent than to those with mild sleep disorder. To manage sleep disorder along with depression, people with breathing problem should consult the doctor for proper treatment. With it, clinicians need to be attentive about possible treatments to cure the un-treated depression caused by sleep-related breathing disorder. One can also follow light exercises or meditation to get relief.
Acne Drug ‘Roaccutane’ may Cause Depression!
Very often teens and sometimes elders found to be suffering from acne problems. They use various drugs to remove them away from the affected parts of the body. However, you need to be careful from now onwards. As an acne drug called ‘Roaccutane’ found responsible for causing depression or suicide in the patients. It affects the development of nerveous system as it contains components rich in vitamin A. Trials were conducted on mice up till now, but it is not sure whether the drug can produce same effects on humans also and hence requires further research before practical implementation on humans. I believe that acne patients need not worry about the study till it gets approved to cause reactions in human. If possible, they can consult acne specialists for suggestions and related information.
Non-smokers please note…nicotine may help curb Depression!
A study found that nicotine may help to curb depression. But this does not mean that people should go for smoking or start using nicotine patches to curtail depression. The study reported that people who are non-smoker found to experience depression as compared to the smokers. The report is not meant to encourage people for smoking as it is one of the significant factors contributing to a lager number of deaths. This information may prove beneficial to the researchers to further development of new treatments . Moreover, pharmaceutical companies are also working to manufacture a drug resembling the properties of nicotine by evading its addictive nature. So, depressed need to wait till the drug or the treatment comes to the market. Further, avoid smoking as it is not a health builder rather a health destructor.
Depression may attack you with Slumber Breathing Problems!
Sound Sleep significantly contributes towards good health, both mental and physical. Sleep problems may be linked to depression. People with breathing disorders during sleep may found to have high risk of developing depression as compared to those with easy breathing. Therefore, people need to sleep with ease. Breathing problems arising due to respiratory failures or defects need proper treatment. Affected people can also perform simple breathing yoga exercises to overcome sleep disorders after consulting their physician.
Kill Depression and Anxiety with Yoga!
Most of the people waste their money on buying antidepressants to curb anxiety or depression due to their unawareness about yoga as yoga can be the best empowering technique to curtail depression as well as anxiety by managing your mood and soothing your mind. Different ways of breathing provided in yoga can help to change your mood, your emotions and your feelings about you, consequently, calming your depression. Moreover, yoga helps to educate you to pay attention towards yourself and lower the requirement of medication. Yoga can prove effective if pooled with good breathing techniques and a skilful instructor, their combination in turn, help in increasing feel-good hormones called oxytocin and prolactin and decreasing stress hormone called cortisol. Finally, yoga provides apparent space for your sense of divine. So, join yoga classes, consisting of good instructors that can let you to reach the desired goal of removing depression and anxiety as well. Regular yoga practice may not let depression or anxiety to come near you forever.
Genes linked to Depression may help develop Antidepressants!
We often feel depressed, may be due to sadness, dullness and lack of happiness or solution to a problem, no definite goal in life, isolation and many more personal problems. Now, these people can hope for new antidepressants as a group of genes are found that can influence a person’s probability of becoming depressed. These phosphodiesterase genes manages the production of proteins helping the cells including brain cells to communicate with each other and variations in certain genes makes a person depressed. This family of genes may provide a new therapeutic treatment. The finding is a worthwhile work that can help to provide relief to depressed people whose number is rising highly in today’s world due to speedy and selfish living by cutting depression with antidepressants to be developed in near future by removing or limiting the variations of those particular genes.
Health stores playing havoc with depressed by offering unproven drugs
Most of the medicines sold by health stores do not have the capability to counter depression – this fact, has been revealed by experts. Most of the experts believe that St John’s Wort is the best medicine to counter depression. Actually these experts consulted many health shops telephonically and they found out that most of the health shop owners were not possessing adequate knowledge about particular medicines. The darkest aspect of health shops has finally been revealed. I can dare say these health shops are playing havoc with the lives of the patients. Moreover, this unprofessional conduct should be checked as soon as possible and patients should understand the need of appropriate medicine and should not hanker after quacks.