Stretching exercises for just 10 minutes a day help to relieve menopause symptoms and depression.
Japanese researchers found that women who do stretching exercises for 10 minutes before going to sleep, much less face the most severe symptoms of menopause. Exercise can also improve mood and sleep quality. However, stretching does not help to get rid of hot flashes, the study showed.
“If a woman can afford every day Hiking for 30 minutes and then stretching exercises for 10 minutes, thereby it will improve their health, reduce symptoms of menopause, improve mood and enhance cognitive functions of the brain,” says Dr. Joann Pinkerton of The North American Menopause Society in the United States. – Regular exercise improves sleep quality, which is also of great importance”.
The study involved 40 Japanese women aged 40 to 61 years. 20 of them were randomly selected to perform stretching exercises 10 minutes a day right before bedtime for three weeks. Another 20 had maintained a sedentary lifestyle. The researchers evaluated the symptoms of menopausal women, 10 special issues. In addition, they received information about the physiological symptoms, mood and sleep quality, and pain in the body.
At the beginning of the experiment, all women endured menopause is approximately the same. More than half of the volunteers were observed pronounced symptoms, and two thirds had depression. Most of the women were not physically active.
Stretching exercises helped women to improve almost across the Board in just three weeks. Only the intensity of the tides in both groups remained the same.
