HEALTHY NEWS
“York University researchers found last month that practicing yoga helps balance the stress hormone cortisol enough to ease the pain of fibromyalgia sufferers. Just imagine what it could do for that undiagnosed pain in your a**. Study participants practiced 75 minutes of yoga twice a week for 8 weeks and reported significant reductions in pain and associated symptoms as well as psychological benefits like feeling more accepting of their condition, more hopeful, and less helpless. If yoga can make a chronic disease seem manageable, what else might it make seem easier?” (September 13, 2011 Women’s Health Yoga Connection email from Women’s Health Magazine.)
To read more about the study, go to: http://news.yorku.ca/2011/07/27/yoga-boosts-stress-busting-hormone-reduces-pain-york-u-study/
