Re:Association between physical exercise and mental health: ...
by jessriedel on Friday August 10, 2018 @08:18PM
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> So that would suggest that the body just reaches a new equilibrium.
This is another degree of freedom in the theory, right?
I mean, this could all be true for all I know, but as an outsider I think this falls into the category of stuff I can't judge, and (like a thousand other theories investigated by experts and published in impressive places like Science) hasn't yet risen to the level of consensus.
> Conclusions: Physical exercise positively affects mood and cardiovascular fitness, but does not lead to long-lasting changes in plasma levels of kynurenine and KYNA in patients affected by mild-to-moderate depression.
So that would suggest that the body just reaches a new equilibrium. Again, the point is that resilience does not fix causes - it could be that this is similar to trying to fix traffic jams with more roads; the only real fix is to get rid of the cars as much as you can (after which having an extra lane can make traffic go smoother).
> Both papers you cite are by the same group, and I don't think the results represent a consensus of the experts.
IIRC, that kynurenine does something is apparently well-established, and not just by this group. Also, that first paper has quite a few citations, you can check for follow-up research on Google Scholar[1]
[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5384718/
[1] https://scholar.google.de/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=Skele...