What impression do you get when you think of exercise? Maybe a happy land comfort life, oh no maybe a life full of tiresome jogging and stretching. It’s quite true your thoughts are not far from my thinking. Though exercises may sound hectic at the mention, research has it that it works in the same effects like an alleviate depression natural antidepressant. You may actually ditch all your medications in the dust bin and start using exercise as your personal natural mood booster. But, be patient on the ditching part; let’s have a short glimpse of what the doctors and researcher have to say on the importance of everyday exercises. Reasons For Exercise Reasons that justify why exercise is an alternative antidepressant that helps ease depression symptoms have not been clearly defined yet. Recent studies done by use of a microarray tool to examine how exercise change the gene activity in mice, gave a clue on the effects in human beings. The focus of the research was based on a brain region called the hippocampus which is known to be responsible for mood regulation and how dl-phenylalanine does affect fertility. The rodents were put on a running wheel and the effects showed alteration of 33 genes, which were ever observed in other experiments. The conclusion was that exercise enhances nerve growth factor known as ‘Nerve growth Factors’ (NGF) – they are small proteins that maintain nerve cells. The researchers further infused synthetic version of NGF in the brains of mice, ...

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