A New Study Shows That Exercise Is Good For Mental Health, But Only Up To A Point

A new study delves into the effects of exercise in relation to mental health

Everyone on social media has seen the memes claiming that exercise is better than drugs when it comes to mental health. While this is not strictly true, there is some merit to the premise. Exercise does help to alleviate some forms of mental problems. Now, a new study conducted with Yale University and published in the Lancet Psychiatry on Wednesday delves further into the mechanics of how and why this works — and when exercise stops being a salve for mental health.

According to the study, it takes only two hours of physical activity a week to show an improvement in mental health.

One of the study’s co-authors, Adam Chekroud, who is an assistant professor of psychiatry at Yale University, revealed that this means using exercise to benefit your own mental health is easily within the reach of many people.

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