CAMBRIDGE, U.K. – A large new study done by scientists at Cambridge University prove that yoga helps lower back pain but causes mental illness.
The largest study ever done about the benefits of yoga examined over 5,800 people who did yoga regularly over a two-year period. It concluded that yoga is extremely effective at relieving lower back pain, but yoga caused mental deficiencies in 80% of those studied and some kind of mental illness in over 72% of participants.
The study, funded by the British Institute of Health in collaboration with the U.S. National Institute of Health was published on Monday.
Smaller studies in the past have suggested that yoga, which involves stretching exercises along with a mental component of deep breathing and other relaxation techniques, was moderately effective at easing symptoms of chronic lower back pain and that people felt more “at peace.”
For years yoga experts (gurus) have claimed that yoga relieves stress, but while some people in the study did report less stress when doing yoga they felt more stress when they missed a yoga class.
“We were all surprised to learn that yoga had such a detrimental effect on a person’s mental health, and shocked to learn that it lowers IQ and causes the onset of dementia,” said Professor Karen Engelbert from the Cambridge University.
Look at this man. He was a successful investment banker in London, but gave it all up to do this three hours a day:
The benefits of yoga are attributable to the physical benefits of stretching and the “good feeling” people get when stretching and manipulating their bodies in a hot room with other people. ”Yoga does have many benefits for the body – even aerobically – but if you do it too much, many people lose interest in other aspects of their lives and tend to have trouble concentrating and doing simple tasks like tying their shoelaces,” said Engelbert.
The study found that many people who do yoga wind up walking around with a purple (or blue) mat even when they are not going to a yoga class. It found that yoga is “addictive” and recommends that a Yoga Anonymous (YA) be started in the United States so people who do yoga obsessively can get treatment, before they completely lose all their mental faculties.
Yoga affects women and men in the same way, but women do more yoga then men. Of the 5,800 people in the study, 69% of those who went to yoga class regularly were women. It did not matter if the people went to a yoga class or did yoga at home – the results were the same. Dementia.
People that participated in the study were also five times more likely to be on anti-depressants, anti-psychotic medicine and marijuana. They were also more likely to own scented candles.
The bottom line: yoga is good for the back, bad for the brain.
This is a very interesting post. My first thought in reading it was a question I asked my father, as a child: Daddy, what makes a person "crazy"?. His answer was this: When people think, act, believe or experience life differently from the rest of the world, the world thinks they are crazy, but really, they're just different.
As a yoga "expert" of a different kind, I have developed a form of yoga for the mind based on the same principle upon which Yoga is founded. It is a method by which an individual can become more mentally flexible and strong, more self-aware, and gain access to more choices and make better decisions in life and enjoy more success. This method also addresses feelings, and the ability to quickly shift one's overall state of being according to one's own choice.
I want to thank you for this article, Frank, for I believe it is always best to contemplate multiple sides to any issue.
Sincerely,
Well if the true essence of doing Yoga is Meditation and not to be trapped by a "sick" mind its very laughable that those who were doing the research were indulging that of the mind and not of the spirit. So could I put it this way if someone is already menatlly ill and they lose their mind aren't you doing them a favour?in letting them lose a sick mind. Plus if an investment banker gave up a high pressured job to work on his self 3 hours per day?Isn't that logic in the respect that he can't take the money with him when he's gone but he's gonna take himself. plus he's got to live in his body until hiis dying day on this planet. Whats the point in having the cash if you haven't got the health to enjoy it. Yoga is about balance First Breath then Strength then Flexibility the middle one this article missed out completely. I could go on about this for ages but hey anyone who practices see's the funny side of this and how rdidculous it sounds
Love & Peace
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Yoga is good in very few ways but unfortunately it's a dairy product and such products create certain genes in your system which cause hair loss in those most susceptible especially when you come of age. I wouldn't be so prompt to eat yoga. Try to love yourself more an not let others lead you so eager to eat things that may harm you.
stupid! yoga is not something you eat..! something you do!
I started Yoga a few years back to lose weight and gain flexibility for lovemaking. Since then I have lost 27lbs (now only 163lbs to go!). The coolest thing about it is our instructor always imparts wise soothing thoughts while we are practicing like , “It is written, that the weaver who uses the reeds of the sacred Ganges, computes his worth in man hours per foot pound.”
jajaja that does not entice me at all to practice yoga…NO THAKS.. I will stick to running.
I have been doing yoga for the past four years and i loved it so much that i decided to become an instructor shortly after i began practicing. This article states that Yoga causes mental illness, but i can assure you that it does nothing of the sort. Yoga helped cure me of my mental afflictions. Prior to practicing yoga, I suffered from bulimia and anorexia, as well as other mental disorders. But, shortly after participating in the discipline, i became increasingly aware of my body and my current self-destructive nature. With time and practice, my mind began to clear and presently i have never been happier. Yoga does not make "people lose interest in other aspects of their lives and [cause them] to have trouble concentrating and doing simple tasks like tying their shoelaces."
Yoga helps us understand ourselves and the world around us. It helps us see clearly and especially see through the illusion of our broken world. Everything that the mainstream media tells you is to benefit the corporate agenda because the big corporations are the ones that own the media. Yoga helps us to discover truth, both inner and outer. Perhaps that banker turned yogi decided to do so because he realized that the system he was working for is nothing but fraudulent.
I am a Yogi and I stand for Truth, Justice and Liberty.
Excellent contribution. Yoga is such a powerful transformational and balancing practice.
The photo of supta baddhakonasana is gorgeous!
That's not supta baddha konasana, that's baddha konasana in sirsasana …
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Are you kidding me. With all the worthless stuff in this world of ours who would want to choose one of the most beneficial practices to lead us to meditation and peace of mind to say it is harmful. If peace of mind is considered to cause mental deficiencies then I say bring it on. The mind can only work efficiently in conjunction with a healthy active and flexible body. So there you go, is it possible that we use our intellect a bit too much anyway. I say do more yoga, relax and enjoy your life. If you want to talk about deficiencies, lets talk about how drugs and alchohol kill brain cells and tell people to get off drugs and stop drinking and do more yoga.
If a person can no longer tie their shoes, its not the fault of yoga, its the fault of the human themselves. This is one of the worst case studies I've ever read. And I cannot believe money was actually spent on this study!! Perhaps the person should have spent the money to actually do a yoga training and then see if the training would cause mental illness. Because I'm perfectly fine and I've had nothing but positive effects from yoga!! Yoga is way more than poses!! But then again, if they actually studied yoga…they would have known this!!
whoever did this study is insane!…
Hahaha. Brilliant. Might be a bit too subtle for some.
‘they were also more likely to own scented candles’
Lol, as my Nag Champa burns next to my mat. Must be time for a spliff. Quack quack fizzle Zune dweebie. Nokka Nokka, miaow. This Is The News.
That is hilarious. Brilliantly written.
Yoga doesn't cause mental illness. Those that do yoga are insane to begin with.
Some of us who are Christians have always known that Yoga is detrimental to ones mind. First of all, it is a far eastern discipline that involves opening ones mind – very dangerous thing to do as it opens you to demonic possession of all sorts. These far eastern disciplines are sugar coated occultic practices designed to deceive people into becoming possesed by demons – I have read an actual testimony from a one time yoga instructor who converted to Christianity. In short, mental illness is caused by demons so don't engage in anything that opens up your mind. Always have control and allow God's Holy Spirit to minister unto you!
your a dumbass and a disease to society
"In short, mental illness is caused by demons so don't engage in anything that opens up your mind"?????
your ignorance is dumbfounding.
This is a joke, right?
This ladies and gentleman is the result of a decade of Yoga
LMAO, he was trolling. This was a joke. The whole article was a joke. This comment was a joke… You all got trolled!
Hahaha, it seemed that some Christians have mental problems, or maybe it was all a joke by this joker.
Bullshit… Yoga is a beautiful way of life, free of religious/ occult practices… Please try and do some sensible research before writing such nonsense about something that has been practiced for generations. Now has 100% scientific backing… N whoever did this research please publish their full name and where and from whom did they get such fake info?
the very word yoga means to link up or connect to the Supreme (in either the impersonal Brahman feature of the personal Bhagavan feature) as well as to yoke or restrain the senses from animalistic behavior. To think that yoga as espoused by Patanjali or Krishna has no link to religion, or the process by which one develops their love for god, is in denial. It can be commercialized or sterilized as much as you want but the performance of yoga is ultimately meant for divine realization of the Absolute truth and not just for a tight butt.
Stretching = The Devil. Hmmm…where do I sign up for my research money $$$$$$$$$!
At the very beginning, only healthy people could practise yoga which was meant to lead them to Nirvâna.
Yoga is about Balance. Too much of anything is not good for us. To claim that yoga causes mental illness may shy some away from a practice when done correctly and in healthy moderation has so many positives. This is so very disappointing to say the least.
Apparently doing yoga also causes some people to lose any trace of a sense of humour- assuming they had one to start with… I can see this article being way too subtle for some people though.
hi Frank, what a funny piece
Is that you modeling sirsasana-baddhakonasana in the photograph?
Who funded it Vatican? Very convenient finding especially so soon after that fundamentalist Father Gabriel Amorth talks through his Cross. This smacks of uniquely patented Pharma Cos “discovering” new ‘drugs’ ramming it through FDA through motivated pre-determined end result studies and finding it to be potentially risky even to life when the Patent runs out and Generics step in by introducing another more deadly concotion. Pharma Cos find it easy to get such motivated researchers desperately in need of funding and they are found dime a dozen Hence no surprise that such studies backed with all the hoarded vatican wealth (from the days of El Dorado and Inquistion!) Now all that remains for the proselytizing bigots is to impale Yoga Gurus.
As Count Louis Hamilton (“Cheiro” as popularly known) has written about how the Church actively suppressed palmistry and astrology because it was jealous of its Hindu origin at a time when the power of the Church was beginning to be felt outside the domain of religion, and how the Church was intolerant to knowledge that did not proceed from its teachings. Palmists and astrologers were branded pagans, heathens, sorcerers, witches etc and were impaled.
But can these Vatican funded “researchers” produce another study that Bible says that the Earth was not flat and neither 64 miles square and the Bible talked of the precession of the equinoxes much like the Hindus did from time immemorial who factored it in their Horoscope casting by a very accurate figure a concept which Western astronomers “discovered” in the 1930′s. Maybe the Pope or his virulent assistant Father Gabriel Amorth will equest Yoga Gurus to be impaled lest the shepherded “flock” disappear to a more sustainable though system.
As Koenraad Elst concludes in the “Psychology of Prophetism – a secular look at the Bible” Quote …”Prophetism has caused innumerable hardships without giving anything valuable in return. Not one of the valuable things in the cultures dominated by it, can be traced to their prophetic-monotheistic component. Its source has more often than not been mental darkness. Today, there is no justification for keeping humanity in the mental prison of prophetism any longer. ” Unquote
this proves that science can be a method which proves whatever you want to prove.
some people are afraid the values, living forms change & so they might loose the power of manipulating people
Ncie! i mean, Grete! I mean Kewl, no wait i mean azsum!
oh hoo cairs? hedstand time
Wow some of these comments are funny. Yoga opens your mind and balances almost ever part of you.
I can't believe ANY of you took this post seriously.
Censored in the middle of a word? Really? Rediculous.