Moderate-to-vigorous exercise may offer comparable benefits to antidepressants for individuals with depression, with the added advantage of improving long-term health.

“It is encouraging that some individuals with depression may find moderate-to-vigorous exercise may be comparable to antidepressants but with added health benefits to also improve long-term health.”

“exercise therapy may be a viable treatment for some people!”

“Compared to no treatment or placebo, exercise was substantially more effective at improving depressive symptoms, and it was as effective as standard treatments, such as psychotherapy (including CBT) and antidepressants, in alleviating depression.”

“exercise is, aerobic exercise and now even strength training exercise, how it’s almost in some cases, as potent as some of these antidepressants that are out there in terms of treatment.”

“exercise is one of the big ones, right? I mean, exercise has been shown in multiple studies to help improve depressive symptoms in people with, you know, major depressive disorder or have clinical depression.”

“You get, you know, improvements in mood. You get improvements in depressive symptoms, anxiety, and everything, you know, almost of the magnitude similar to people, you know, taking pharmaceutical, you know, interventions for those things.”