New Study Shows Yoga Has Healing Powers
Published by National Geographic on February 2014, in a recent study by Janice Kiecolt-Glaser, professor of psychiatry and psychology at Ohio State University, and published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, the group that had practiced yoga reported less fatigue and higher levels of vitality three months after treatment had ended.
This study shows postures like downward dog can reduce inflammation, the body’s way of reacting to injury or irritation. That’s important because inflammation is associated with chronic diseases including heart disease, diabetes, and arthritis. It’s also one of the reasons that cancer survivors commonly feel fatigue for months, even years, following treatment.
Or the Bow posture can reduced stress and better sleep.
The study gone even further. They examined three cytokines, proteins in the blood that are markers for inflammation. Blood tests before and after the trial showed that, after three months of yoga practice, all three markers for inflammation were lower by 10 to 15 percent.