Scientists may soon be able to explain the link between depression and obesity due to a new study which shows that exercise releases a protein in the muscles that combats kynurenine, a chemical in the brain that is linked to causing depression. Source
This is important.
Okay maybe sure.
But maybe we also live in a culture that vilifies and shames us for not conforming to an arbitrary body size. Or skin color. Or social standing. Or physical ability. Or any number of other things that intersect with depression and mental illness.
This is not some cut and dried issue that can be ‘cured’ with exercise.
