How to fight major depression? Breathing, study suggests

Penn researchers say yoga could act as alternative to antidepressants

A breathing exercise may work as an alternative for the millions of people who do not respond to antidepressants, a new study says.

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine found that the breathing-based meditation practice known as Sudarshan Kriya yoga helped in alleviating severe depression for people who weren’t responding to antidepressant treatment.