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Podcast: Earth Tribe Radio
Episode: Trees in stressful times. Studies have found that spending time around trees and even looking at them can reduces stress.
Description: How Trees Can Help Us in This Time of Stress
Studies have found that spending time around trees — even simply looking at them — can reduce stress, lower blood pressure, and improve our mood. Research shows that both exercising in forests and quietly sitting in the presence of trees help reduce the damaging stress hormones cortisol and adrenaline. Japanese researchers call this practice Shinrin-yoku, or "forest bathing," and have documented remarkable effects on the immune system, including an increase in natural killer cells that help the body fight illness and disease. Trees literally breathe life into us — releasing phyton...