Antipsychotics and Exercise: The Weight-Gain Trap, and Why Training Still Helps the Mind
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People taking antipsychotic medication face a double burden: the illness itself, and a class of drugs that reliably adds weight and metabolic risk. The cardiovascular consequences are one of the main reasons life expectancy is shortened in serious mental illness. Exercise is one of the few tools that pushes back on both the metabolic damage and the symptoms, and understanding how the drugs cause weight gain shows why it has to be part of care rather than an afterthought.
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