{"id":124162,"date":"2026-05-07T11:27:37","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T11:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/2026\/05\/07\/how-hdl-cholesterol-may-help-explain-why-exercise-supports-mental-health\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T11:28:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T11:28:41","slug":"how-hdl-cholesterol-may-help-explain-why-exercise-supports-mental-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/2026\/05\/07\/how-hdl-cholesterol-may-help-explain-why-exercise-supports-mental-health\/","title":{"rendered":"How HDL cholesterol may help explain why exercise supports mental health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"content\">\n<div end=\"true\" class=\"sc-11rlt5o-4 gGtfNP\">\n<p>Regular physical activity has been consistently linked to lower rates of depression, and most of us have experienced improved mood after a good workout. But the mechanisms behind this relationship remain to be unraveled. <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cdn.nutrition.org\/article\/S2475-2991(26\" class=\"mbg-track-event\" data-track-event-types=\"click\" data-track-type=\"article-link\" data-track-prop-element-id=\"in-body-link\" data-track-prop-label=\"page_type | element_id\" data-track-prop-category=\"Link\" data-track-prop-link=\"https:\/\/cdn.nutrition.org\/article\/S2475-2991(26\">A new study was published in <\/a><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cdn.nutrition.org\/article\/S2475-2991(26\" class=\"mbg-track-event\" data-track-event-types=\"click\" data-track-type=\"article-link\" data-track-prop-element-id=\"in-body-link\" data-track-prop-label=\"page_type | element_id\" data-track-prop-category=\"Link\" data-track-prop-link=\"https:\/\/cdn.nutrition.org\/article\/S2475-2991(26\"><em>The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition<\/em><\/a>    indicates that HDL cholesterol (often called &#8220;good&#8221; cholesterol) may help explain part of the connection.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regular physical activity has been consistently linked to lower rates of depression, and most of us have experienced improved mood after a good workout. But the mechanisms behind this relationship remain to be unraveled. A new study was published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition indicates that HDL cholesterol (often called &#8220;good&#8221; cholesterol) may<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":124163,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[17280,7338,7256,29103,667,286,6079],"class_list":{"0":"post-124162","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-meditation","8":"tag-cholesterol","9":"tag-exercise","10":"tag-explain","11":"tag-hdl","12":"tag-health","13":"tag-mental","14":"tag-supports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124164,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124162\/revisions\/124164"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}