If you an exercise freak, here’s a good news for you. Your love for exercise can actually come as a bonus for your health. Do you know, it stimulates the formation of new brain cells? It means, exercise can do the work of antidepressant for a depressed. And, if you love being lazy after hours of your non-physical office works, then better adopt exercising habit right away. If you experience mild to moderate depression, and not a clinical and acute one, keep those pills away and kick off that burning outs habits. That exercise has a similar effect of antidepressants on depression, is no new a finding. It has been established by previous research. But, what the new study has revealed is how this can happen! – i.e. how does exercise stimulates new brain cells production. Courtesy, Astrid Bj�rnebekk at Karolinska Institutet, for uncovering the underlying biological mechanisms that explain — why can exercise be a form of therapy for the depressed. To make this finding, Bj�rnebekk has also compared it with pharmacological treatment with an SSRI drug. She says, What is interesting is that the effect of antidepressant therapy can be greatly strengthened by external environmental factors. A finding, a statement is not as convincing as an explanation to it – this is exactly what the new study did. It clearly explains how exercise can have an effect of an antidepressant in mild to moderately severe depression. So, we can surely conclude that exercise is a very good complement to medicines – A bit of exercise a day can keep the doctor away. Image