Doctors Propose Exercise as Mental Health Treatment

Health and fitness coverage highlights exercise as more than general lifestyle advice: researchers argue clinicians should offer individualized prescriptions specifying activity type, frequency, intensity, duration, safety and monitoring, including to support brain health. For adults over 65, resistance exercises at home using simple equipment can help maintain or rebuild muscle and improve strength and mobility when movements are progressively challenging. Recovery is also essential to training adaptations, with sleep, nutrition and heat therapy presented as foundational supports. Separately, a Virginia Beach fitness business has launched a program combining individualized and group exercise with mental-wellness strategies.