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Effects of Yoga on Oxidative Stress During Aging

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As research in medicine flourishes, so does the life expectancy. The average life expectancy is consistently growing and has come to be  70 years for most adults in the developed and developing countries. However, even as the life expectancy is growing, the lifespan, i.e. the age for healthy living, isn’t growing as much. In diseases such as dementia, brain functioning is easily depleted in the later years. A good and natural way to combat this is yoga. Yoga is a process to open up the mind to work at its full potential. Through this review, we wanted to see if this is also true for the elderly, whose brain functioning is already depleted. Can yoga rejuvenate the minds of the elderly?

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  1. Amity Education Group, Suffolk, NY, USA

    Riya Gupta

  2. Department of Biochemistry, Central University of Haryana, Mahendragarh, Haryana, India

    Pawan K. Maurya

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  1. Department of Biochemistry, Central University of Haryana, Mahendergarh, Haryana, India

    Pawan K. Maurya

  2. Discipline of Pharmacy, Graduate School of Health, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Kamal Dua

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Gupta, R., Maurya, P.K. (2020). Effects of Yoga on Oxidative Stress During Aging. In: Maurya, P., Dua, K. (eds) Role of Oxidative Stress in Pathophysiology of Diseases. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-1568-2_11

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