Pick your calm

Both work a little. Pick the one you'll actually do daily.

SWe reviewed 47 studies on it.Stress, nerves and calm

How to use it

Meditation and exercise both reduce anxiety and low mood a little, and neither clearly beats the other. Choose the one you'll do every day, or stack them. Neither replaces therapy or medication.

How sure we are

S Evidence: strong. Large trials or many studies, pointing the same way.

Sources

Goyal et al. 2014 (47 trials against active controls) · exercise network meta-analysis.

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