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Want a good night’s sleep? Tai chi as effective as talk therapy, new study shows

Tai chi, the Chinese mind-body exercise, is just as good as talk therapy for chronic insomnia, a new study has found.

The study, published in the British Medical Journal, randomly assigned 200 Chinese adults over 50 years old to either tai chi or cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT), a goal-oriented talk therapy that helps manage depression and anxiety, to treat chronic insomnia.

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