
Mental Health
Exercise and Mental Health: What the Evidence Shows
How much exercise actually improves depression and anxiety, why the effect sizes shrink in better trials, and where movement stops being enough on its own.
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How much exercise actually improves depression and anxiety, why the effect sizes shrink in better trials, and where movement stops being enough on its own.

10,000 steps came from a 1965 pedometer advert. Here is what the big accelerometer cohorts show: where mortality risk really falls and where it flattens.