02/12/2025
A wealth of research reveals that yoga and other mind-body practices have the profound power to alleviate stress, with compelling biochemical evidence suggesting a diminished inflammatory response as a remarkable consequence of these transformative effects. Research published in Translational Psychiatry suggests that regular yoga practice can foster these life-changing epigenetic changes. In the study, researchers examined a subset of 28 women reporting high levels of psychological distress, who had originally been assigned to waitlist control group. Following the initial study, these women were offered an 8-week yoga intervention, and underwent a series of tests to assess several biomarkers of inflammation as well as their psychological wellbeing.
Chronic stress, and the resulting inflammatory response, is a known cause of numerous illnesses. Although yoga is found to reduce stress and increase wellbeing, we know little about the molecular mechanisms mediating these effects. Interestingly, increasingly research suggests that one pathway for t...
