Exercise as a Prescription for Depression, Anxiety, Chronic Stress (like Diabetes) and Sensorium
Psychiatry & Psychotherapy Podcast
David J Puder
4.8 • 1.4K 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
By listening to this episode, you can earn 0.5 Psychiatry CME Credits.
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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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