Major evidence review supports an “exercise prescription” for most adults to boost mental health and well-being

When you head to your week­ly yoga class or lift weights at the gym, you’re doing some­thing good for your phys­i­cal health: get­ting more fit today, and so pro­tect­ing your body into the future. What you may not always think about, though, is that you’re also pro­tect­ing your­self from anx­i­ety and depression—about as much as…

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What will the ‘Peloton for mental health’ look like five years from now? And, who will develop it?

Mind­Labs rais­es £1.4M for its new plat­form, a ‘Pelo­ton for men­tal health’ (TechCrunch): Ide­al­ly, men­tal well­ness should be con­sid­ered part of a healthy dai­ly rou­tine, like exer­cise. But even exer­cise is dif­fi­cult to turn into a reg­u­lar habit. Pelo­ton addressed phys­i­cal fit­ness by com­bin­ing smart sta­tion­ary bikes with live class­es and com­mu­ni­ty fea­tures to create…

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tDCS coming to an Equinox gym near you: Good, Bad or Depends?

___ Brain-Zap­ping Work­out Tech Is Com­ing to an Equinox Near You (Giz­mo­do): “Ath­letes are gen­er­al­ly will­ing to enter­tain any sci­en­tif­ic-sound­ing trend that promis­es an edge. For ref­er­ence: Michael Phelps and cup­ping or Shaquille O’Neal’s ener­­gy-enhanc­ing bracelets. Which is prob­a­bly why Equinox jumped at the chance to offer Halo Neuroscience’s brain-zap­ping, sup­pos­ed­ly per­­for­­mance-enhanc­ing head­sets as part of…

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