Effect of exercise therapy on lipid profile and oxidative stress indicators in patients with type 2 diabetes

Age-related changes in cardiovascular system, autonomic functions, and levels of BDNF of healthy active males: role of yogic practice

“…Apart from that, yogic practice may decrease the absorption of fatty acid from gastrointestinal tract, which may decrease TC, LDL-cholesterol, and BMI. Singh et al (2008) and Gordon et al (2008) reported a significant reduction in free fatty acids, LDL cholesterol, very low density lipoprotein cholesterol, and an increase in HDL cholesterol following yogic practice.…”

“…Specific exercise can be performed with electronic devices at home or gym, which is costly. Furthermore, studies comparing the effects of yoga and exercise seem to indicate that, in both healthy and disease population, yoga may be as effective or better than exercise at improving a variety of health-related outcome measures such as heart rate variability (HRV; Bowman et al 1997), cognitive performance (Gothe et al 2013), blood glucose (Gordon et al 2008;Singh et al 2008), blood lipids (Singh et al 2008), salivary cortisol (Smith et al 2011), and oxidative stress (Sinha et al 2007). Except all these, yoga is helpful for improving subjective measures of fatigue (Oken et al 2004(Oken et al , 2006, pain, and sleep in healthy and ill population (Yurkuran et al 2007).…”

Impact of sudarshan kriya yoga on mean arterial blood pressure and biochemical parameters in medical students

“…Reductions in mean blood pressure indicate a shift in the balancing components of autonomic nervous system towards the parasympathetic activity which was reported by Santha Joseph et al and Anand BK et al 8,9 This modulation of autonomic nervous system activity might have been brought about through the conditioning effect of yoga on autonomic functions and mediated through the limbic system and higher areas of central nervous system were reported by Selvamurthy et al 10 The result showed that yoga had beneficial effect on blood pressure, blood glucose level and cholesterol level which has also been seen in the study by Yang et al 7 The practice of yoga is associated with significant decrease in cholesterol among subjects with cardiovascular diseases, atherosclerosis, angina, hypertension and type 2 Diabetes at different duration of yoga. 7,11 The improvement in the lipid profile parameters after yoga could be due to increased hepatic lipase and lipoprotein lipase at cellular level, which affects the metabolism of lipoprotein and thus increase uptake of triglycerides by adipose tissues as seen by Singh et al 12 Better ability to overcome stress can be cited as possible mechanism for improvement in lipid profile. 13 A Vedamurthachar et al found evidence that yoga can improve many physiological indicators of insulin resistance including glucose tolerance and insulin sensitivity.…”

Diabetic Glomerulopathy

“…Therefore, the American Diabetes Association feels that there is no need to restrict exercise in patients with diabetic nephropathy. A more recent study that examined the effects of Yoga and conventional exercise showed findings that suggest better glycemic and blood pressure control obtained in type 2 diabetic patients after Hatha yoga than conventional PT exercises (Gordon LA, 2008).…”

“…Currently, there is no clinical evidence to suggest that vigorous exercise increases the rate of progression of diabetic nephropathy. In fact, some studies have shown that aerobic exercise actually decreased urine protein excretion (Gordon LA, 2008). Additionally, it has been demonstrated that resistance training may have a beneficial effect on muscle mass, nutritional status, functional capacity, and glomerular filtration rate.…”