Exercise can make you feel happier

Exercise has been shown to improve your mood and lessen stress, anxiety, and symptoms of depression. The parts of the brain that control stress and anxiety experience changes as a result.

Additionally, it may enhance the brain's sensitivity to the hormones serotonin and norepinephrine, which lessen depressive symptoms. Exercise can also improve endorphin production, which is known to help create pleasant sensations and lessen the sense of pain. It's interesting that it doesn't matter how hard you work out. It seems that physical activity, regardless of how strenuous, might improve your mood. In fact, the exercise of any intensity significantly reduced symptoms of depression in one research including 24 women with depression. In one analysis of 19 studies, it was discovered that even after only a few weeks, those who had been active but had stopped doing exercise significantly increased their feelings of anxiety and depression.