Divya T Satheesh, Vijayalakshmi M T, Mini K, Asish K, Pushpalatha M, Suresh Varun
Department of Physiology, Government Medical College, Thrissur, Kerala, India.
Department of Anaesthesia and Critical Care, Government Medical College, Thrissur, Kerala, India.
Int J Yoga. 2017 Sep-Dec;10(3):115-120. doi: 10.4103/0973-6131.186162.
Yoga the spiritual union of mind with the divine intelligence of the universe aims to liberate a human being from conflicts of body-mind duality. Beneficial cardiovascular and pulmonary effects of yoga are in par with aerobic exercise, even amounting to replace the exercise model. We conducted an interventional study in healthy volunteers, to analyze the impact of short-term yoga training on cardiovascular, pulmonary, autonomic function tests, lipid profile, and thyroid function tests.
A sample of fifty new recruits attending the district yoga center was subject to 75 min yoga practice a day for 41 days. Basal values of cardiovascular, pulmonary, autonomic function tests, lipid profile, and thyroid function tests were recorded before yoga training and were reassessed for postyoga changes after 41 days.
After yoga practice there was a significant reduction in the resting heart rate, systolic blood pressure, diastolic blood pressure, and mean blood pressure of the participants. Effects on autonomic function tests were variable and inconclusive. There was a significant increase in forced vital capacity, forced expiratory volume in 1 s, and peak expiratory flow rate after yoga. A significant reduction in body mass index was observed. Effects on metabolic parameters were promising with a significant reduction in fasting blood sugar level, serum total cholesterol, serum triglycerides serum low-density lipoprotein levels, and significant increase in high-density lipoprotein. There was no significant change in thyroid function tests after yoga.
Short-term yoga practice has no effect on thyroid functions. Yoga practice was found beneficial in maintaining physiological milieu pertaining to cardiovascular and other metabolic parameters.
瑜伽，即心灵与宇宙神圣智慧的精神融合，旨在将人类从身心二元性的冲突中解放出来。瑜伽对心血管和肺部有益的影响与有氧运动相当，甚至可以替代运动模式。我们对健康志愿者进行了一项干预性研究，以分析短期瑜伽训练对心血管、肺部、自主神经功能测试、血脂谱和甲状腺功能测试的影响。
选取五十名参加地区瑜伽中心的新兵作为样本，每天进行75分钟的瑜伽练习，持续41天。在瑜伽训练前记录心血管、肺部、自主神经功能测试、血脂谱和甲状腺功能测试的基础值，并在41天后重新评估瑜伽后的变化。
瑜伽练习后，参与者的静息心率、收缩压、舒张压和平均血压均显著降低。对自主神经功能测试的影响各不相同且无定论。瑜伽后用力肺活量、1秒用力呼气量和呼气峰值流速显著增加。观察到体重指数显著降低。对代谢参数的影响很有前景，空腹血糖水平、血清总胆固醇、血清甘油三酯、血清低密度脂蛋白水平显著降低，高密度脂蛋白显著增加。瑜伽后甲状腺功能测试无显著变化。
短期瑜伽练习对甲状腺功能无影响。发现瑜伽练习有助于维持与心血管和其他代谢参数相关的生理环境。
