How Exercise Diminishes Stress
How Exercise Diminishes Stress Studies have shown that exercise can benefit you from a variety of psychological and physical effects, including depression and anxiety; and that it can be even more effective than anti-anxiety medication. It does this in many different ways. Exercise gives your body what it needs to defeat stress: a physical exercise that helps us get out of the fight-or-flight mode. I have been walking or biking nearly every day for the past three weeks and I am feeling much less anxious. When we exercise, levels of different stress hormones rise, such as cortisol and adrenailine , which go up for a short time while exercising. And at the same time, these stress hormones also rise when we are psychologically stressed. The exact same physiological response . Regular physical exercise teaches the body to recover faster from this effect. It's like you are conditioning your body to sluff off your everyday stress. Next time you are feeking overwhelme...