Gardening to boost your wellbeing - with Dr Amir Khan

BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine Podcast

Immediate Media

Nature, Home & Garden, Leisure, Science

4.6 • 607 Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

How does your garden make you feel? We gardeners know the huge benefits gardening has on our mental health and wellbeing. Here, BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine Wildlife Editor Kate Bradbury, talks to Dr Amir Khan, NHS GP, TV doctor and devoted gardener, about the wonderful ways gardens and gardening can heal us. Whether we notice our blood pressure lowering or not, we all have those moments when the strains of the day, including anger and stress, melt away after an hour or two, digging the soil, sowing seeds, or even weeding. In fact, the moment Amir returns from a shift at the surgery, he heads straight into the garden. Gardening is so good for us, that doctors are now prescribing it to some patients as part of their journey to feeling better. From encouraging frogs, hedgehogs and wildlife into the garden, to the physiological changes going on inside of us when we’re outdoors nurturing our plants, listen now as Kate and Amir dive into all things feel-good gardening. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	My name's Meren, grower for Ginsters, and I'm looking for an onion masseuse to help me grow the best veg for those delicious pasties.
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0:52.3	Hello and welcome to the BBC Gardner's World magazine podcast, brought to you by the team
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0:59.8	Join us as we chat all things gardening with the nation's favourite experts.
1:10.2	We gardeners know very well the benefits gardening has on our mental health.
1:16.1	Whether we notice our blood pressure lowering or not, I'm sure we've all had those moments
1:21.6	where the pressures of the day, including anger and stress, melt away after an hour or two digging the soil, sewing seeds,
1:30.2	or even weeding a particularly weedy patch of earth we've been putting off for ages.
1:35.9	Gardening is so good for us that doctors are now prescribing it to people as part of their journey
1:41.3	to feel better. Hello, I'm Kate Bradbury, and today I'm in conversation with Dr Amir Khan, TV doctor and author,
1:51.4	social media superstar and devoted gardener, about the wonderful ways in which gardens and gardening
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