Saturday, 30 August 2008

Yoga breast cancer

a new study reports that yoga exercise will not only enhance the mental state of patients with breast cancer, but also enhance the patient's immune capability.

According to foreign reports, the United States from the University of Washington Pamela Lashuerci April 30 at the National Institute of Physiology in the published report said that a "plastic rope yoga" training not only for breast cancer survivors Provide meditation to relax, also equivalent to a moderate-intensity physical exercise.

Schulz's team randomly selected 19 breast cancer survivors. The average age of patients 61 years old, are about four years ago, the first diagnosed with breast cancer and subsequently received hormone therapy had no contact with "plastic rope yoga." To their research team divided into two groups, the first group of 10 people to receive eight weeks of "plastic rope yoga" exercise control group nine were not carried out any yoga practice.

Study found that, compared with the control group, in yoga practice group, the "sick pressure" decreased significantly. More importantly, the mental state accompanied by the improvement in the immune system called "NF-kB" the decline in the vitality of important proteins, "NF-kB" pressure is an indication that the body size of the biomarkers.

Schultz said that any pressure on the feelings of the human body can make "NF-kB" to increase vitality, "NF-kB" means that patients with lower vitality of the "physical and mental stress reduction."

"Plastic rope yoga" by the Indian yoga master B K S extension of Dhi Qar Pioneer Iraq. This yoga with a rope to complete the main action, with particular emphasis on hands and feet, spine and pelvis and the different movements

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