Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: Yoga, a scientific-spiritual discipline is the ancient heritage of India that has given answers to spiritual and holistic search for perfect health and well being. Modern life is full of stress and stress-related disorders are rampant in today’s world. Yoga is panacea for the modern stress epidemic and has been demonstrated to be an answer to stress and stress related disorders (Madanmohan et al, 2002). The yogic lifestyle, yogic diet, yogic attitude and yogic practices help man to strengthen his body and mind and develop positive health. Yoga enables us to withstand stress by normalising the perception of stress, optimising the reaction to it and effectively releasing pent-up stress through various yogic techniques. Yoga has various facets and the main techniques that are useful to modern man are hatha yoga asans and pranayams, dharana and dhyan. These are most effective when practiced in combination and performed consciously and with awareness. Yogasans help to develop strength, flexibility, will power, good health, and stability and when practiced as a whole with the other limbs of yoga, they give the practitioner a stable and unified strong personality. Yoga is an effective and time-tested method for improving health as well as prevention and management of diseases especially psychosomatic and degenerative disorders. Oxidative stress caused by increase in the production of Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS) such as superoxide radicals (O2), hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), hydroxyl radicals (OH), and singlet oxygen. ROS are produced within the cell in the multiple compartments but majority are generated in the mitochondria during ATP production by oxidative phosphorylation contributing to ageing and age-related disorders. Our body has complex antioxidant defence mechanism to prevent the deleterious effect of ROS. An imbalance between reactive oxygen species and antioxidants causes oxidative stress (Cathcart, 2004).
Source: Journal of chemical health risks
Author: Selva Kumar. S
Language: English
Subfield: Biochemistry
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W7217607705