Before you grab a mat and take up the position, do read what yoga does to your body and brain. Yoga comes in many different styles, but generally, it involves some amount of stretching and meditation.
Over 36 million Americans practice yoga, which really can have profound health effects on your body and brain. Studies show yoga can improve flexibility, which in turn can prevent and treat back pain.
More intriguing still, other research has found evidence of longer-term brain improvements from regular yoga sessions. But isn’t that claim, well … a stretch? Certainly not, insists Dr ...
“I want to use these findings to design a yoga pill. It may sound silly, and the translation of our work into a marketable drug will take years, but we now have a potentially targetable brain ...