How to Prove Whether Yoga Has Special Health Benefits

Date: 2023-08-21 11:59:47

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Yoga practitioners are healthier, but does practicing yoga lead to good health, or does good health lead to practicing yoga?

So, is yoga good for you? We can’t just look at the health of yoga practitioners because being healthy may lead to practicing yoga, rather than practicing yoga leading to being healthy. It might even go both ways. The only way to know for sure is to put it to the test with interventional studies and randomized controlled trials that go beyond associations and correlations, and, instead, can prove cause-and-effect.

This is the first of six videos in a series on yoga. Stay tuned for:
• Yoga Put to the Test for MS, Back Pain, Neck Pain, Insomnia, and Breast Cancer (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/yoga-put-to-the-test-for-ms-back-pain-neck-pain-insomnia-and-breast-cancer)
• Yoga Put to the Test for Headaches, Diabetes, Osteoarthritis, and the Elderly (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/yoga-put-to-the-test-for-headaches-diabetes-osteoarthritis-and-the-elderly)
• Yoga Put to the Test for Depression, Anxiety, and Urinary Incontinence (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/yoga-put-to-the-test-for-depression-anxiety-and-urinary-incontinence)
• Yoga Put to the Test for IBS, Inflammatory Bowel, Menopause, and Osteoporosis (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/yoga-put-to-the-test-for-ibs-inflammatory-bowel-menopause-and-osteoporosis)
• The Side Effects of Yoga (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-side-effects-of-yoga)

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