[gowld]

OP site is blogspam.

Here's the paper: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41500513/

It's a review/summary of existing research, not anything new.

The fundamental problem with studying alternatives to therapy is that "being in a study" may be as effective as therapy! It's a structural placebo effect.

For a depressed person, "Exercise guided by a researcher" is different from "trying to make myself exercise".

> Authors' conclusions: Exercise may be moderately more effective than a control intervention for reducing symptoms of depression.

> Exercise appears to be no more or less effective than psychological or pharmacological treatments, though this conclusion is based on a few small trials.

> Long-term follow-up was rare.

Nothing new:

> The addition of 35 RCTs (at least 2526 participants) to this update has had very little effect on the estimate of the benefit of exercise on symptoms of depression.