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Are you in your mid-60s? Do you have a few chronic diseases? This combination changes the travel equation. Why not look at how you like to spend your days at home and apply this to travel? At my home, in small town Manitoba, Canada, I let the days unfold. I don’t make big plans. I […]
This post is about how to recover health, hope, and happiness with the help of trees. I am a nurse and a patient: a fit 65 year old with Lupus and Raynaud’s Disease. Getting any diagnosis is like striking a match. Once struck, the match does not light again. There is no going back. […]
Science is hot on trees. Connections between trees and health are growing. Trees are the new drug. Trees might be more effective than statins in preventing heart disease and stroke. Aruni Bhatnagar, is a medical professor at the University of Louisville, Kentucky. He is leading the Green Heart Project. Eight thousand trees (8,000 big […]
See trees with new eyes. The unexpected health benefits of trees are waiting for you. Tree air is loaded with beneficial bacteria, essential oils, and disease preventing phytoncides (oils that trees give off to protect themselves from germs and insects). Diana Beresford-Kroeger in “Arboretum Borealis ” say Tree aerosols are anti-inflammatory, antiviral, antibiotic, antifungal, antiseptic and […]
Professor Matilda van de Bosh, of the Faculty of Medicine and the Faculty of Forestry at UBC says our “old friends” trees, soils, and plants keep our immune systems healthy. In her Lancet article “Live Long in Nature, Long Live Nature!” Van de Bosh says: “exposure to microbial biodiversity is necessary for organ systems and […]