Researchers at Boston University School of Medicine recently set out to contrast the brain gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) levels of yoga practitioners with those of participants who spent time walking. GABA is the chief inhibitory neurotransmitter in the mammalian nervous system. In other words, it chills us out. (People with depression and anxiety have low amounts of GABA in their cerebrospinal fluid.) The study was this:… View More