Exercise as a Prescription for Depression, Anxiety, Chronic Stress (like Diabetes) and Sensorium

Psychiatry & Psychotherapy Podcast

David J Puder

Science, Health & Fitness, Medicine

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2018

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Western society faces is the most unhealthy we’ve ever been. It’s reached epidemic proportions: depression, anxiety, poor focus and sensorium issues, chronic stress, and diseases of chronic stress (like diabetes). The solution is simple—exercise and healthy eating.

In this episode, I will be going through 17 studies on how exercise influences and improves these factors. I will cover how it works, and how to develop an exercise program from the perspective of a doctor, not just for body sculpting.

Some things I am covering:

Strength training decreases depression

Strength training increases cognitive function

Fitness decreases risk of dementia

Exercise increases BDNF

Strength training and exercise in treatment for diabetes

For PDF with citations: https://psychiatrypodcast.com/my-resources

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Psychiatry and Psychotherapy Podcast. The podcast to help you in your journey
0:06.0	towards becoming a wise, empathic, genuine and connected mental health professional.
0:11.0	I'm your host, Dr. David Puder, a psychiatrist who splits his time practicing psychopharmacology,
0:17.0	individual and group psychotherapy, medical director of a day treatment program,
0:21.0	medical education research, and teaching residents and medical students.
0:31.0	Alright, and welcome back to the Psychiatry and Psychotherapy Podcast.
0:36.0	And today I am going to go into a topic of prescribing exercise for depression, anxiety,
0:44.0	chronic stress, and diseases of chronic stress, like diabetes, hypertension, heart disease,
0:50.0	chronic pain, and the list goes on. And the problem that we face in our culture
0:57.0	is we have chronic stress. We are constantly on the go. And this leads to all sorts of issues.
1:08.0	And what I mean by that is people are not dying of infections anymore.
1:12.0	Your uncle and your parents probably did not die of Lyme disease. They did not die of, you know, leprosy.
1:23.0	They did not die of, you know, some infection. What they probably died of was something like heart disease,
1:30.0	hypertension, cardiac disease. Something like this is a disease of chronic stress.
1:37.0	And the chronic stress systems go on and they go on, and they lead to a breakdown of usually one organ to start with.
1:46.0	And then subsequently it keeps going as we medicate the first organ.
1:53.0	And I think depression, anxiety, fatigue, previously I talked about issues of sensorium.
2:00.0	And this is very, very important to understanding some of the things that we face.
2:05.0	So in this article, I am going to go through 17 studies.
2:10.0	Some briefly some more time. I will put this all on my website if you follow the link to psychiatrypodcast.com.
2:17.0	And you can download the PDF from there. And what I'm going to go through is the 17 studies.
2:28.0	I'm going to go through some of my knowledge from my experience. And I am going to point towards what you can do to start out
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