The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
the gold standard randomized control trials there have been numerous randomized control trials that have shown exercise plays an important role in mitigating depressive symptoms facilitating recovery from depressive disorders and preventing relapse for example a meta-analysis of 25 randomized control trials found that exercise improved depression
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Bookmarking — the dossier-vs-overview split is the right call. Most of the time I want overview; sometimes I want receipts.
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the scientific evidence continues to stack up that exercise may help prevent and treat depression attributing causality to the role exercise plays in preventing depression was difficult early on largely to the fact that many of the studies that linked exercise in depression were observational studies which are always limited by confounding factors if all we have to go on are observational studies it's difficult to rule out reverse causality who's to say people that are physically active just aren't depressed to begin with the good news is the case where exercise can be bolstered when we begin to look at some of the recent evidence ranging from molecular to genetic to randomized controlled trials