{"id":13974,"date":"2012-03-06T15:31:02","date_gmt":"2012-03-06T12:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orchid.tarahan.com\/eng\/?p=13974"},"modified":"2017-11-08T10:12:50","modified_gmt":"2017-11-08T06:42:50","slug":"can-exercise-alleviate-depression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orchid-co.com\/eng\/2012\/03\/06\/can-exercise-alleviate-depression\/","title":{"rendered":"Can exercise alleviate depression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Another treatment option is physical exercise. Several scientific studies have shown that a regular program of exercise can help people to recover from depression; lifting their mood, reducing anxiety and improving self-esteem and concentration. They also found that taking regular exercise could help protect people against becoming depressed in the first place.<br \/>\nWhy does exercise work to aid depression?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There\u2019s a range of reasons why exercise can help with depression:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Exercise is believed to increase the release of the brain chemicals that affect our mood and make us feel happier.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Exercise helps us to get active and meet new people. This stops us from feeling isolated and unsupported.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Exercise can give us new goals and a sense of purpose. We have something positive to focus on and aim for.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Exercise can boost our self-esteem \u2014 it can improve the way we look and how we feel about ourselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another treatment option is physical exercise. Several scientific studies have shown that a regular program of exercise can help people<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":14986,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2766],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orchid-co.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13974"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orchid-co.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orchid-co.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orchid-co.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orchid-co.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13974"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/orchid-co.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14985,"href":"https:\/\/orchid-co.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13974\/revisions\/14985"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orchid-co.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orchid-co.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orchid-co.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orchid-co.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}