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Does depression or anxiety affects the aerobic and anaerobic systems during exercise ?

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Their causes do: Anxiety and depression are due to problems. Many times stress, low vit d3, mineral deficiencies and exposure to toxic substances like tobacco smoke or other sources of cadmium air pollution can result in cough, anxiety, depression, and changes in exercise tolerance. Cadmium is toxic to the testes and low testosterone decreases exercise tolerance and causes depression and anxiety in men.

Answered 2/14/2014

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Depression does not: 30% of panic patients worsen with exercise due to panic response to build-up of lactic acid. 1/3 feel better and 1/3 don't feel any different. With generalized anxiety disorder people often feel better. The same holds for ptsd unless running is a trigger for flashbacks. Getting people with social anxiety out to exercise is sometimes difficult. I have no idea re: ocd. Colleagues? Best wishes.

Answered 3/16/2014

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