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“Forest
Bathing..”
What?
“Forest
Bathing” or what later became “Forest Therapy”:
"The
purpose of forest therapy is to provide preventive medical effects by
relieving stress and recovering the immune system [diminished]by
stress,"
Yoshifumi
Miyazaki of Chiba University explained. As Japan's leading scholar on
forest medicine, he's carried out studies across the country. The
results show forest bathing can significantly lower levels of
cortisol, a stress hormone, along with blood pressure and heart rate.
Other
research points out that walking in the woods can boost the body's
immune system by increasing anti-cancer proteins and enhancing the
so-called natural killer activity of certain cells.
Ah
so that's why a walk in the woods invigorates, replenishes and
rejuvenates me!
I
always knew that but apparently it's not just me and there is
evidence.
Maybe
doctors should prescribe “a walk in the woods, take once daily and
repeat”
No
the major drug companies won't get rich(er) but you will.
Richer
in body, mind and spirit.
The
whole article is here:
“There
is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but Nature more”.
~George Gordon, Lord Byron, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but Nature more”.
~George Gordon, Lord Byron, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
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