22/02/2026
Batman delivered anyway. 🦇
A 2024 BMJ study of 218 trials found that dancing produced the largest reductions in depression symptoms of any exercise — outperforming walking, yoga, and antidepressants alone.
The thing you do alone in your kitchen at 7pm on a Tuesday? Clinically significant.
Your body releases serotonin, dopamine, and oxytocin all at once when you dance. No class required. No coordination either, apparently.
Healing doesn’t always look like a treatment room. Sometimes it looks exactly like this 🪩💃🏻🕺🏾
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Source: Noetel et al., BMJ 2024