Sunday, February 26, 2012

Aerobics to Cure Insomnia

Why taking pills, when you can’t fall asleep? They have a whole range of side effects. It has been recently found, that there’s a better way to cure insomnia without taking sedatives. Regular aerobics classes can help reduce anxiety and even get rid of insomnia. As for me, besides playing badminton, I do step aerobics at least once a week and after it I get a nice face color and a perfect mood, which makes me so efficient in work – just like nothing else. So, I would recommend aerobics as an antidepressant, too.


The Aerobics Study

Scientists at Sao Paulo University have recently found this connection between aerobics and insomnia. Meanwhile they have also mentioned, that other kinds of physical activities don’t have such insomnia curing effect.

Aerobics and Insomnia

The scientists have made this resume, after they studied the effect of different physical activities on the human body. It occurs, that doing aerobics at even the lowest complexity level reduces the time of expecting the sleep by 54% and the time till the Rapid Eye Movement (REM) sleep – by 36%. Together with it the total duration of sleep increases by 21% and the health-improving effect of sleep – by 18%.

Why Aerobics Is Good

Doing aerobics reduces the symptoms of excess anxiety. This kind of sport is simple and doesn’t exhaust one. In general, aerobic exercises improve the cardiac performance and give one a lot of positive emotions.

Cherry Juice Releases Muscle Pain

Nobody likes myalgia, but it can occur quite often as a result of intensive physical exercises. Myalgia can also make the person give up regular exercising, as it causes muscle pain every time. But there has been found a way to cope with these unpleasant feelings – drinking cherry juice.


 A research involving athletes who spend many hours in the gym daily has been recently conducted. It has been discovered, that drinking a glass of cherry juice or eating 45 cherries can successfully release muscle pain. This effect of cherries is due to their antioxidant properties. Cherries are also rich in substances having anti-inflammatory effect.

Yoga Enhances Immunity

A group of international experts from the universities Haifa (Israel), Leeds (Great Britain) and Harvard (USA) believe that the traditional Indian technique of relaxation, yoga, has its own genetic and biological benefits. Muscle relaxation, breathing exercises, and practice of meditation help mental and physical development, lower signs of stress and anxiety, strengthen the immunity, and prevent the effect of the stress hormones. The physiologists noted that such observations were made in people who practice yoga for years as well as in beginners.


 The therapists say that due to its relaxing qualities yoga can help cure a vast number of illnesses such as various aches, sterility, rheumatic arthritis, and insomnia. It has been determined that yoga activates over 2 thousand genes which influence cell metabolism, immune response to oxidative damage of cells and tissues, and chronic tension. Medics mainly analyzed immune blood cells so that they could understand how effective the exercises are in terms of helping the person feel better and protecting their body. If you want to see your health benefit from yoga exercises, then you need to devote to it at least 20 minutes a day.

When Sport Is Unhealthy

It turns out that those who practice heavy exercise loads daily have a shorter lifespan. It happens because during exercising they inhale a large amount of oxygen; as a result, early aging of their cells is taking place. The fact, that intensive exercising speed up the aging of a human body, was identified by the doctors of Valencia municipal hospital.


They disclosed to public the results of their research, in which their calculations and estimates certify a big difference of effects of moderate, regular, frequent and intensive physical loads.

In the reports it is stated that high class athletes have a lot of health problems, which could lead to physical impairment and often debar those athletes from competitions. It takes place because during intensive physical loads people have to breathe in a lot of oxygen. The given oxygenation process, in fact, is the cell aging process. In excess it provokes the “oxidant stress” and leads to many illnesses, including cardiovascular diseases and cancer.