How can exercise during menopause help emotional health?
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Dr. Michael Roizen answered:The benefits of exercise are as extensive as the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s collection, especially when it comes to your emotional health. Exercise increases energy, decreases fatigue, and promotes calmness. Resistance and aerobic exercise, high-frequency exercise, and meditative exercise, such as tai chi and yoga are known to reduce the symptoms of depression and anxiety. Exercise can also help promote better sleep. And we all know a good night's sleep can be a major mood saver.The benefits of exercise are as extensive as the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s collection, especially when it comes to your emotional health. Exercise increases energy, decreases fatigue, and promotes calmness. Resistance and aerobic exercise,... More -
Regular exercise can improve your mood and is helpful to emotional health at all phases of a woman's life. Exercise during menopause can especially improve the sometime moodiness of menopause. Make sure you take good care of yourself to achieve emotional health and well-being.
Regular exercise can improve your mood and is helpful to emotional health at all phases of a woman's life. Exercise during menopause can especially improve the sometime moodiness of menopause. Make sure you take good care of yourself to achieve... More -
It is common for women to experience emotional symptoms as they go through menopause. The symptoms often are depression, anxiety and moodiness. There are many studies showing the benefits of exercise on psychological ailments such as depression. Exercise has been shown to increase levels of serotonin, a neuro transmitter that has a key role in the development of depression, in the brain. Exercise also reduces cortisol, a hormone associated with depression and weight gain. In 2008, a study was published that demonstrated mild to moderate exercise reduced symptoms and risk of anxiety, stress and depression associated with menopause.
It is common for women to experience emotional symptoms as they go through menopause. The symptoms often are depression, anxiety and moodiness. There are many studies showing the benefits of exercise on psychological ailments such as depression.... More
