Indian Science Congress (ISC) in Bengaluru will be witnessing a new method in testing the effectiveness of yoga as an intervention for treating many diseases, by a prominent Indian-American cardiologist.
The “new protocol” will be presented at the 107th ISC which is scheduled to be held from January 3-7 by Indranill Basu Ray who is a cardiac electrophysiologist at the Veterans Hospital in Memphis.
“Despite understanding the molecular mechanism, large trials of yoga using the standard protocol called RCT (Randomized Control Trials) has not shown as much promise as expected,” Ray said.
Ray added saying that tobacco being toxic was proven by following the people who smoke and showing that they develop a particular type of lung cancer and not by performing any medical trials as it would be next to impossible to prove it using an RCT other than being phenomenally costly.
He exclaimed that it is the same for yoga, as a person who is suffering from hypertension which is caused due to chronic adaption to stress may be treated with yoga protocol in order to eliminate the disease.
Yoga can measure the adaptive stress-response by monitoring hormone levels other than using the commercially available wearable devices with the advancement in the molecular biology, says Ray.
“ It is a chronic arousal of this system due to adaption to chronic stress that causes hypertension,” said Ray.
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