Metabolic syndrome results when several risk factors are present in a patient, causing serious health hazards. Reversing metabolic syndrome may be a difficult task, but it is not an impossible one. In fact, it is a worthwhile goal that many patients have had success with when they dedicate themselves to a better state of health. Metabolic syndrome happens in a person when they experience three or more of the following risk factors: fat buildup around the waist, a high triglyceride level, A low HDL (“good cholesterol”) count, high blood pressure and high fasting blood sugar. Because stress is a factor in most of these, when yoga reduces stress it also has the power to bring a person out of metabolic syndrome. There are many methods people use for reversing metabolic syndrome. The most important step a person must take, however, is correcting their eating and exercise habits.

Because metabolic syndrome …