Yoga and Heart Health the Newest Study

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by Baxter In the spirit of keeping up with all the new developments in the scientific study of yoga, I’d like to share some information about a new study on yoga and heart health that came out last week. Last Tuesday, the day I went live on   yogauonline.com  with my own lecture series on heart health, they ran a story about a new study that reviewed a bunch of previous studies looking at yoga’s impact on various factors related to heart disease.  Since I did not have adequate time to read over the entire study that day, I finally got to it the is week and felt it was worth letting you all know what the researchers found. First off, this is one of those studies where the researchers did not do their own new research on yoga for heart health, but instead they looked back at the work of other studies and tried to put all the data together to get a better overview of what has been studied and found so far. We call these kinds of studies “meta-analysis.” The title of the stud...
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