Ecotherapy: How Trees Make You Healthier

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Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2018

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Arbor Day is celebrated nationally in the United States on the last Friday of April each year, although individual states celebrate it at different times. So in honor of National Arbor Day, I figured I’d share some fascinating information about ecotherapy as it relates to trees, and at the same time discuss some important aspects of tree care and stewardship! Ecotherapy is a reasonably new term, and refers to the process of growth and healing by interacting with nature. I’ve discussed it at length before while talking about gardening for the elderly. But did you know that just being in and around trees can be a healthy addition to people of all ages? Let’s start out by discussing some of those important health benefits that being under the living canopy can bring you! Learn More: Ecotherapy: How Trees Make You Healthier Keep Growing, Kevin Follow Epic Gardening Everywhere: YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What's up everyone? Welcome back to the show. Now Arbor Day was about a week ago.
0:07.0	Yeah, I'm a little late on the podcast for Arbor Day. I'm sorry.
0:11.0	But I think it would still be interesting to talk about something called eco-therapy.
0:16.3	Now I first heard about this from an outside online article and it was called Take two hours in the forest and call me in the morning.
0:26.3	How trees can make you healthier and I was like what is going on here and so I read the article and it was all about in
0:34.5	Japan how there's something called forest therapy and how people are often prescribed
0:38.8	just walking through the forest by their doctors and this isn't any sort of woo-wW-W-W-W-W-Ting, they actually have measured
0:45.6	biomarkers and found that you know walking through the forest can reduce cortisol all sorts of
0:50.8	things like this so I figured why not for Arbor Day at least on the site if you go
0:55.0	to epic gardening.com forward slash ecotherapy you can find the full article that will outline all the
0:59.6	benefits and all the studies but I figured I'd summarize it for you guys in the podcast too.
1:04.0	Maybe, you know, your New Year's resolution has kind of fallen off and you should be walking through the forest
1:08.0	more. Maybe this will persuade you to do that.
1:11.0	So trees, may they increase your lifespan. After an eight year long
1:16.2	environmental health study it was determined that women who lived in very
1:20.3	green areas had a 12% lower non-accidental death rate.
1:25.2	So just, they died 12% less from things that weren't accidents
1:29.3	than those who had less vegetation.
1:32.0	Kind of interesting. Now that's correlation not causation of
1:35.2	course but here's the conclusion that the researchers came to. Higher levels of
1:40.1	green vegetation were associated with decreased mortality.
1:43.7	Policies to increase vegetation may provide opportunities for physical activity,
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