Exercise-alone works better for depression than drugs-alone or drugs-plus-exercise, Robert Whitaker

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One study found that exercise-alone worked better than drugs-alone or drugs-plus-exercise, and that adding drugs hindered long-term recovery according to author and journalist Robert Whitaker as he noted in a 2010 interview that he did with Joseph Mercola, DO.

Exercise-only worked best for depression; Drugs HINDERED the Long-Term Stay-Well Rate

Whitaker notes that a study on depression in the late-1990’s from Duke University compared

• drugs-only versus
• exercise-only versus
• drugs-plus-exercise

They expected the drugs-plus-exercise group to do the best, but this was NOT the case.

They found that the exercise-only group did the best after 10 months, and found that drugs HINDERED the long-term stay-well rate in the drugs-plus-exercise group.

Robert Whitaker’s Book

Robert Whitaker is the author of the wonderful book Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America .

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• Depression

• Robert Whitaker (author & journalist)