Did You Know Yoga Has This Awesome Benefit?

You already know  yoga makes you feel all kinds of Om-azing, but new research in the Journal of Clinical Oncology gives scientific evidence that it can significantly help reduce fatigue and inflammation, particularly in
breast cancer survivors.

Researchers  have it that  breast cancer survivors to either a twice-weekly 90-minute hatha yoga program or a control group (who didn’t do any yoga) and found that yoga practitioners had significantly less fatigue, more vitality, and lower blood markers of inflammation after three months than did control group members.

“We wanted to look at breast cancer survivors because fatigue is an important problem for them post treatment, as is cardie-respiratory fitness. Data from other labs suggest that 30 to 40 percent of breast cancer survivors may experience significant levels of fatigue that interfere with daily life in some cases several years post treatment,” lead author Janice K. Kiecolt-Glaser, Ph.D., told SELF.  

“And women who have undergone chemotherapy have cardie-respiratory fitness that is 30 percent lower than sedentary peers.”
Kiecolt-Glaser and her colleagues selected hatha yoga, a more gentle, pose-based form of yoga, because it’s restorative and easily adaptable for anyone with physical limitations.

So why is this all a big deal?  ” 

Author: Harriet