Yoga as Preventive Medicine - Confer：瑜伽作为预防医学-授予.pptVIP

In the 1950s a british doctor sited that cancer was no more attributable to cancer than stocking! * * * * * * * * * * * Long-term Consequences Poor Social Bonds Reduced positive prognosis when hospitalized for illness Increased risk of heart attack Increased risk of mental health conditions Social and economic conditions that undermine well-being of many citizens Yoga as Preventive Medicine “Each patient carries his own doctor inside him.”?―?Norman Cousins From: Characteristics of yoga users: results of a national survey, Birdee GS, Legedza AT, Saper RB, Bertisch SM, Eisenberg DM, Phillips RS, Journal of General Internal Medicine. 23:1653-8, 2008. Most yoga users (58%, n=1381) felt that yoga was an important part of maintaining their health and well-being. Contributing Factors to Stress Reduction Deep slow breathing practices, common to yoga, reduces sympathetic arousal and increases parasympathetic activation. Various meditative practices of yoga increase parasympathetic activation. Long holds in stretch oriented asanas enhance relaxation. Greater parasympathetic activation enhances sleep quality. Mindful attention taught in yoga classes, reduces rumination. Balance between sympathetic and parasympathetic practices increases physiological resiliency to stress. Vagal Tone Parasympathetic activation is correlated with greater vagal tone: Increases resiliency to stress Enhances cardiac functioning Associated with elevated GABA Levels Improves digestion Inhibits release of inflammatory proteins Increased heart rate variability Stress Reduction-Cellular Level Reduced consumption of O2 Increased surplus of O2 Upregulation of genes that reverse oxidative stress damage-cellular restoration Increased levels of telomerase Yoga Stress and Sleep From: Subjective sleep quality and hormonal modulation in long-term yoga practitioners, Vera FM, Manzaneque JM, Maldonado EF, Carranque GA, Rodriguez FM, Blanca MJ, Morell M, Biological Psychology 81:164-8, 2009. Sleep i