Sunday, May 01, 2016 Adding exercise to health education helps treat addiction, say UCLA researchers Mark Wheeler | April 26, 2016 kzenon/iStock People who included walking or jogging along with resistance training in their treatment had a 15 percent increase in the number of dopamine receptors in the brain. Can you physically outrun an addiction? Of course not. But a new study by UCLA researchers found that exercise, when combined with traditional behavioral therapy, helped people who were addicted to methamphetamine. The study, involving 19 people, showed that those who included walking or jogging along with resistance training in their treatment had a 15 percent increase in the number of dopamine receptors in the brain. The dopamine system is directly impacted by meth use; restoring the
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