Jacksonville, FL -- (SBWIRE) -- 10/20/2015 -- Yoga originally starts in India. Today, yoga is being practiced by more than twenty million people in the USA alone. Starting as a niche activity for some, it eventually developed and become the catalyst of a growing multimillion dollar industry. Several of the known yoga styles and positions that are being practiced in western societies encompass breath control exercise, physical postures, and meditation. With the growing interest of the scientific community on the health benefits that yoga practitioner receives, the numbers of studies that are investigating the effects of yoga to the human body especially into the brains are rapidly increasing.

The effects of long-term yoga practice to the central nervous system of a person have not been explored before. Until recently, were studies that have shown the most of experienced yoga practitioners has greater GM volume that matches control in several brain regions. The effects of meditation can control some of the brain's regions that include primary and secondary somatosensory cortices, hippocampus, anterior and posterior cingulate cortices, insular cortex, medial prefrontal cortex, and cerebellum. These specific regions of the brain have had an effect from the different aspects of yoga practices. The amount of yoga experience and practices of yoga practitioners suggest that yoga highly contributes to the changes in brain anatomy.

The posture, breath control techniques, and meditation have greatly contributed to the changes of the brain anatomy. As such, most meditators are known for having larger hippocampal, insular and left temporal gyrus volume. A Recent review revealed that physical activity and cardiorespiratory fitness are consistently associated with people who have larger hippocampal and prefrontal GM volume. This review solidifies the beliefs of many brain experts that yoga practices have a great impact on the brains of a yoga practitioner. It is hereby believed that neuroprotective effects on the brain are highly associated to yoga practices.

Additionally, the global brain GM of a person declines as he/she age. With this, current report of people practicing yoga has developed global age-related protective effects on the brain's GM volume. The recent review that was approved by McGill University Institutional Review Board has shown that yoga's physical and meditative components have provided neuroprotective effects to its practitioner. Fourteen experienced yoga practitioner were recruited and joined the study. The study was made to determine the neuroprotective effects of yoga to people. Participants are screened carefully and only those who are practicing yoga qualify. According to the data gathered from the study, yoga practice has a neuroprotective effect against the age-related whole brain GM degradation that is found evident to the control group. The data also revealed that Bikram yoga in Jacksonville has a differential effect on the brain.

It is therefore concluded that regular practice of yoga may have had an effect on the whole brain age-related GM decline in a person. The neuroprotective effects that yoga offers to its practitioner help them to fight the decrease of their GM volume. In addition, the changes in the brain anatomy that proves to provide attention, bodily representation, visualization, stress regulation and self-relevant processing.

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