GUY TALK By Mark Bohm EXERCISE YOUR STRESS AWAY Producing “happy chemicals” I play fantasy football. Been in the same league, with mostly the same group of guys, since circa 1998. Haven’t won it since that first year, and before this past season, hadn’t even sniffed the playoffs for a long time. So, with three weeks remaining in my league’s regular season, as I proudly admired my team sitting atop the standings in first place, I was afforded a feeling of fantasy league satisfaction I hadn’t felt in years. Eleven weeks down, only three left in the regular season, and I figured that probably even one win, in any of the remaining weeks 12, 13 or 14, would clinch my team a playoff spot. I never got that one win. In week 14, the final week of the regular season, with nearly a forty point lead going into Monday night, I sat helplessly as the Packers and Falcons got into a shootout at Lambeau, and my opponents, Aaron Rodgers and Steven Jackson, combined their efforts to nail my team’s coffin shut. My first legitimate shot in years for a title was dashed, and I was down. I hadn’t taken my fantasy participation very seriously for a long time, but for whatever reason, this past season I thought I had the right team and I wanted it. Tuesday morning, with the disappointment still lingering, I set out for my first jog in several days. I don’t listen to music when I run. Instead, I let my mind wander, I just think. And as I ran that morning, despite at times revisiting the football week that was, including the could-haves and should-haves of my fantasy team mismanagement, with every passing mile (and there were only about three in total), the gloom steadily dissipated. After a stop at the gym for a quick weight exercise circuit, I returned home feeling myself again. The phenomenon of exercise lifting my mood is one I’ve noticed for years. There is no doubt in my mind that, for me, prolonged periods without working out causes my mood to lean more towards irritable. I even used to half-jokingly tell my wife before leaving for the gym that I’m off to produce some happy chemicals in my brain. A recent scientific study seems to explain that my experience is no joke at all. A study conducted at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden, and published in the journal Cell, showed that exercise helped to protect against depression induced by stress. Principal investigator Jorge Ruas, PhD, and his team, found that mice with high levels of a certain protein in their skeletal muscle – a protein produced by exercise – did not exhibit depressive symptoms when exposed to stressors. This was in contrast to normal mice which did demonstrate signs of depression. The study further revealed that the mice with more of the protein had higher amounts of an enzyme which protects against a substance formed during stress. This month the Parklander is highlighting men’s health issues. Although we might typically think of men’s health as a subject related to our reproductive parts, our mental health is just as integral, if not more so, to feeling good. According to the American Psychiatric Association’s website, www.psychiatry.org, over six million men suffer from depression each year. It’s a serious condition that should be diagnosed and treated by a professional. I’m no mental health professional. But I do know that for this guy, getting in my regular workouts helps me keep a more positive state of mind. If and when I’m feeling glum, I’ll try to remember to move my lazy self off the sofa and get some exercise. And as for fantasy football, I’ll get them next year. P 92 FEBRUARY <strong>2015</strong>
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