Should Doctors Prescribe Nature Instead Of Drugs?

Scientists have found that just being around nature can benefit our health in major ways. What exactly does nature do to our bodies?


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Written by: Molly Nevola

[abslute]

Doctor: I'm sorry but you have been diagnosed with cancer
Patient: So do I get chemo now?
Doctor: LOL go hug a tree

[Gears_Starting]

I feel that straying too far from a more natural way of life in both diet, scenery, and lifestyle choices can be disadvantageous and even harmful. I also feel that the mass encouragement of medicating and treating symptoms rather than getting to the root problems that cause the symptoms is not the right way to go about things either. They say that prevention is the best cure, so ingesting healthy, natural foods, living around more vegetation, and practicing healthy lifestyle choices great strong, healthy bodies and minds that are less likely to develop problems.

[mausi]

i had really bad depression, in a very dark spot. i went to different national parks for 2.5months. i felt much better.

[Nawor]

"suggesting that there is value in nature"

I never would have guessed!

what have we become

[tacticalultimatum]

I'm prescribing you 2 hours of memes a day

[redlinerer]

"excercise helps with type 2 diabeties"
WHOAH YOU DONT

[AdvancedPlugins]

being in green and nature? It's snow here, what the hell do I do now? Die?

[ilovesparky]

So basically, it's not so much nature that's helping these people, it's the exercise, lack of pollution, sunlight, pretty view, and having nice things around the room.

[boekster]

This is perfect! I'm literally writing an essay in school about the effects of nature on humans!! Thank you!!!

[firelow]

I stopped cycling outside to work out instead in a closed space. My depression came back in six months.

[LonjeMarie]

One Christian counselor said any Doctor Who prescribes prescription drugs only without therapy, is guilty of malpractice, and I agree, from my clinical depression it was much much more than taking a pill

[jpn_]

they only just found this out?? seriously humanity is so sad.

[dazednotconfused]

I'm 14 years old and I used to be a sociopath but I read studies of how people came over their sociopathic tendencies by eating a type of mushrooms so I went to Mexico with some cousins and friends and I found the mushroom that helped the participants in the studies and I took one bite and within 15-20 minutes I started to have extreme hallucinations of depression, pain, suffering, and joy all at the same time and at the very end I experienced an out of body experience which felt so real to me but thankfully that all worked out since when I came to the USA I went to see my psychiatrist and took a test and now I'm no longer a sociopath

[KappaClaus]

I exercise three times a week, but never go hiking or walk in green areas; am I benefitting fully from exercising three times a week then, or should I seek more "green areas"?

[EdVanMeyer]

The Lakota people say that a man's heart becomes hard away form nature, they are right. Some people 'get' nature, others need to learn it.

[slowiez]

If you live in a city you know this is very hard

[tylerhill]

Nature and Science can be used for medicine. Prescribe both. Pot anyone?

[shmuckling]

I'm so proud of you for covering such topic! It's not the peak of scientific innovation and it's not some big news, but it's very important and it tends to get neglected. Thanks !Keep it up! :D

[Milliardo]

It used to be in the past that doctors would recommend a rest in the countryside. I think there is something there for the healing effects of nature and a good rest.

[quinto]

Good title :)! This is very obvious to me: Walk in a healthy forest for a couple of hours and be open. You will feel the difference.
We are animals after all and have co-evolved with plants for about 80 million years. There are so many connections, how animals and plants depend on each other. And a forest is much more than a collection of plants (like indoor plants).