Your Doctor Knew Exercise Cures Depression. They Just Couldn’t Tell You.
Exercise has been proven as effective as antidepressants for mild to moderate depression — with evidence spanning four decades. Yet doctors almost never prescribe it. The reason isn’t medical ignorance. It’s a healthcare system structurally aligned around billable, patentable, repeatable interventions. Exercise is free, so it’s invisible. The real scandal isn’t that the research is new. It’s that it’s been ignored since 1981.