Yoga makes your brain shrink
18.9.2019
Translation: Eva Francis
It’s no news that yoga strengthens body and mind. Scientists have now discovered that the trend sport makes parts of our brain shrink – and that's a good thing.
Yoga is often belittled. «Yoga isn’t a sport» – that’s something my office colleagues would say to me almost every time when I went to my lunchtime yoga classes. «A bit of meditation, a bit of stretching. That's it.» I couldn’t agree less. But that’s irrelevant now. What I want to talk about is this: Dutch researchers have just found out that yoga makes parts of our brain shrink. What??
Said «Rotterdam Study» included 3,742 participants. Of these, 2,397 participants were observed over five years and the results were documented to see any long-term changes. Regular brain scans were part of the examination.
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