Yoga for Rats
In the 1970s, Dr. K.N. Udupa studied the health effects of yoga on rats. Since rats couldn't be persuaded to adopt yoga poses voluntarily, he kept them upside in glass tubes for one hour daily — simulating the sirasana, or head-stand pose. Ignoring objections from traditionalists, Dr. Udupa has even initiated tests on rats that are made to simulate a yoga posture. Half a dozen field rats are doing one to two hours a day of sirasana or standing on the head, in openend glass tubes. Wires attached to their tails measure their pulse rate, blood pressure and other metabolic changes. Stress induced in rats by electric pulses made them irritable and quarrelsome, but after an hour of sirasana they became tranquil and appeared to be contented, Dr. Udupa said. Bennington Banner - Dec 1, 1975Click to enlarge source: Stress and its Management by Yoga (1978), by K.N. Udupa
In the 1970s, Dr. K.N. Udupa studied the health effects of yoga on rats. Since rats couldn't be persuaded to adopt yoga poses voluntarily, he kept them upside in glass tubes for one hour daily — simulating the sirasana, or head-stand pose.
Bennington Banner - Dec 1, 1975
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Ignoring objections from traditionalists, Dr. Udupa has even initiated tests on rats that are made to simulate a yoga posture. Half a dozen field rats are doing one to two hours a day of sirasana or standing on the head, in openend glass tubes. Wires attached to their tails measure their pulse rate, blood pressure and other metabolic changes.
Stress induced in rats by electric pulses made them irritable and quarrelsome, but after an hour of sirasana they became tranquil and appeared to be contented, Dr. Udupa said.
Stress induced in rats by electric pulses made them irritable and quarrelsome, but after an hour of sirasana they became tranquil and appeared to be contented, Dr. Udupa said.
Bennington Banner - Dec 1, 1975Click to enlarge
source: Stress and its Management by Yoga (1978), by K.N. Udupa
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