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🗓️ 22 January 2019
⏱️ 4 minutes
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0:00.0 | Understanding the human body is a team effort. That's where the Yachtel group comes in. |
0:05.8 | Researchers at Yachtolt have been delving into the secrets of probiotics for 90 years. |
0:11.0 | Yacold also partners with nature portfolio to advance gut microbiome science through the global grants for gut health, an investigator-led research program. |
0:19.6 | To learn more about Yachtolt, visit yawcult.co. |
0:22.7 | .jp.j. That's y-A-K-U-L-T.C-O.J.p. When it comes to a guide for your gut, count on Yacult. |
0:33.5 | This is Scientific Americans' 60-second science. I'm Jason Goldman. Trees in cities do measurable |
0:40.6 | good for biodiversity and for human health. They scrub pollution from the air. They provide |
0:47.2 | habitat for wildlife. They make streets look nicer, and they even reduce stress and have been linked |
0:53.9 | to reductions in crime. |
0:56.3 | Back in 2015, a group of Toronto-based researchers discovered that planting just 11 more trees |
1:03.4 | per city block could reduce heart-related conditions by the same amount as if everybody |
1:09.6 | living on that block became a year and a half younger. |
1:12.6 | But in Detroit, between 2011 and 2014, a quarter of eligible homeowners turned down an offer from a local non-profit for free street trees. |
1:24.6 | Ironic, considering Detroit's nickname was once the city of trees. |
1:30.0 | It was actually over 1,800 trees that were rejected out of an eligible 7,425. |
1:36.8 | So it was a big enough issue at that point where it warranted further investigation. |
1:42.0 | Forestry researcher Christine Carmichael, who did the research at Michigan State |
1:46.7 | and has since moved to the University of Vermont. |
1:50.2 | The nonprofit created an education campaign to get more residents to accept the free trees. |
1:57.0 | The assumption being that if people had all the facts, they'd be more likely to take the trees. |
2:02.6 | But when Carmichael talked to residents, she found that they understood the benefits of trees. |
2:08.6 | Their unease was about trust. |
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