Amy Clover: How To Beat Depression With A Dumbbell
Abel James Show
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🗓️ 11 August 2017
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Can burpees actually boost your mood?
Science is now telling us that exercise can be a better healing therapy for depression than prescription medication.
As a dude who has been prescribed anti-depressant medication by my doctor “to help me sleep” in the past, I can tell you that I'm a heck of a lot happier when I'm exercising than when I'm medicating.
The reason that a lot of these natural cures don't really get out there is because there isn't a whole lot of money in telling people to go for a walk to help them with their depression.
There is a lot of money in patents, trademarks, branding and getting products out there that people can consume over and over again.
But if you just go for a walk, there isn't really anyone else who's benefiting directly from that, certainly not monetarily, except for you.
So lace up those old tennis shoes and get those endorphins flowing because exercise isn't about how you look, it's about how you feel. And I can definitely attest to that.
Our guest on this episode is Amy Clover, founder of Strong Inside Out.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi folks, I'm Abel James and welcome to the award-winning fat burning man show where |
| 0:04.6 | we talk about real food and real results. |
| 0:07.9 | Before we get to the show, I want to share some interesting information that's on the |
| 0:11.3 | serious side and could be pretty relevant to some of you who are out there listening |
| 0:15.0 | and watching. |
| 0:16.3 | Sciences now telling us that exercise is a better healing therapy for depression than |
| 0:20.9 | medication. |
| 0:22.5 | Several studies were published within the last couple of years, clearly showing that regular |
| 0:26.4 | aerobic exercise has the same results as Zoloft and that patients who kept exercising |
| 0:31.9 | regularly long-term felt better a year later than the one that's taking meds. |
| 0:36.5 | Being someone who's been prescribed antidepressant medication by my doctor to help me sleep in |
| 0:42.3 | the fast, I can tell you that I'm a heck of a lot happier when I'm exercising than when |
| 0:47.6 | I'm just meditating. |
| 0:49.6 | And I think that most of us kind of have that experience. |
| 0:52.6 | I do believe that just about every element that we have out there can be cured or reversed |
| 0:59.0 | with little hacks and adjustments and tweaks to diet and exercise because both of those |
| 1:05.9 | things directly change your physiology the way that your body works, the way that your |
| 1:10.1 | brain works. |
| 1:11.1 | And so it's really important to kind of try out those natural methods first before you |
| 1:16.5 | start popping a whole bunch of pills, especially if you're taking more than just one at the |
| 1:20.9 | same time, they can have kind of unpredictable effects within your body and I'm going to |
| 1:25.7 | be talking about that a lot more in my new book and that's kind of why I'm going out |
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