{"id":860,"date":"2010-01-12T10:35:17","date_gmt":"2010-01-12T10:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/freshliving\/2010\/01\/new-study-alert-yoga-eases-inflammation.html"},"modified":"2010-01-12T10:35:17","modified_gmt":"2010-01-12T10:35:17","slug":"new-study-alert-yoga-eases-inflammation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/freshliving\/2010\/01\/new-study-alert-yoga-eases-inflammation.html","title":{"rendered":"New Study Alert: Yoga Eases Inflammation"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\"IL<\/span>It looks like you can add one more health benefit to yoga’s long list. This one is about reducing inflammation, a firey condition that arises from stress and other factors and makes us vulnerable to diseases like cancer, diabetes, arthritis, Alzheimer’s. and many others. (Thanks to blog sistah Stacie Stukin <\/a>for her heads-up on this<\/a>.) <\/p>\n

This particular yoga study<\/a>, done at Ohio State University and published in Psychosomatic Medicine<\/font><\/a><\/i>, showed that women who practiced relaxing, restorative yoga regularly (at least twice a week) had a lower level of the cytokine (a substance secreted by immune system cells) interleukin-6<\/font><\/a> (IL-6) in their blood, a key culprit in instigating inflammation. It also found that those women maintained a lower level of IL-6 when exposed to stressful situations. (The image at left of the red curls is a graphic representation of IL-6<\/a>–say “cheese,” little cytokine!)<\/p>\n

Since yoga has so many elements–breathing, stretching, paying attention–it’s hard to know which parts we can extract and apply to reducing stress outside of yoga for non-yogis. But this study does underline the fact that stress has a tangible, immediate impact on our blood, bodies, and lives. The good news being that it is possible to reduce its impact just as tangibly. <\/p>\n

What do you do to reduce stress?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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