Women can suffer a range of problems when they’re going through the menopause, from weight gain, sleeplessness and anxiety—and they can all be helped by yoga.
Regular yoga sessions can improve common menopausal symptoms by as much as 73 percent, says a research team from the Xiangya School of Nursing in China.
They analysed 24 studies that involved 2,028 menopausal women to discover the impact that yoga had on a range of symptoms. Although the overall improvement was impressive—in some cases halving the effect of general symptoms—specific issues were also helped: sleep problems eased by around 60 percent, depressive episodes reduced by around 70 percent, blood pressure dropped dramatically, and the women stopped gaining weight.
The one symptom yoga couldn’t help with was hot flashes, one of the most common menopausal problems, and the vague concept of ‘quality of life’ also didn’t improve.
Aside from these two failings, the overall improvements were so impressive that yoga should be recommended as part of menopause care and therapy, the researchers say.
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