Can Exercise Cause Depression?
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Ben Greenfield
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🗓️ 18 July 2015
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Meet Wesley Chapman. He was abandoned at 1 by his father, then at 6 1/2 by his mother. He tried to commit suicide 12 times before his 16th birthday. Wesley was on 25 meds a day for 10 years. His liver failed at age 16 and he was given a 20% chance to live.
But for the past 19 years, Wesley has been studying health, the brain and alternative methods to failed treatments for depression, and today, we specifically discuss the shocking link between exercise and depression. -How Wesley detoxed off 25 different medications and healed his liver... -The little-known link between your colon and your brain... -How exercise can make you depressed, even if you're not "overtrained"... -Why pharmaceutical companies have been writing Wesley angry letters... -What types of physical activity and exercise can actually make you depressed...
Resources from this episode: -"The Human Project" -Coffee enemas -Body Dysmorphic Disorder
Do you have questions, comments or feedback about whether exercise causes depression? Leave your thoughts at BenGreenfieldFitness.com!
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| 1:22.9 | Fitness Podcast. The misconception that people have about suicide is that they think that that |
| 1:27.5 | is somebody giving up. And the reality of suicide is that it's an escape of a reality that you're |
| 1:31.7 | trapped in. So if you're in a bad situation, you're going to do whatever you can to get out of pain. |
| 1:36.6 | When you're depressed, you're going through a state of feeling like you don't want to do anything. |
| 1:41.5 | Exercise is a logical combatant for that because it forces you to get up and do something. |
| 1:46.9 | In that forcing of you to go up and do something, usually you're doing it outside around somebody |
| 1:52.3 | or something else, which creates serotonin, which creates dopamine, which creates adrenaline. |
| 1:56.8 | So it's a natural process. Just Google Jim Selfie, you'll find about 40 pages full of articles |
| 2:03.2 | that talk about the correlation between Jim Selfie and narcissistic behavior. |
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