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Just One Thing - with Michael Mosley

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Just One Thing - with Michael Mosley

BBC

Health & Fitness, Science

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2021

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Michael explores the science behind the soothing power of nature, revealing how nature not only makes us feel good in the moment, but how it also has a more lasting effect on our stress levels and our mental health. Michael speaks to Professor Ming Kuo at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, who has been looking into the surprising ways nature could be having an effect on your immune system and mind. They discuss everything from mood boosting microbes in the soil, to the aromatic chemicals released by plants that could be enhancing your immune system.

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds.

0:02.0

Hello everyone, it's Michelle Vassage, and welcome to my podcast Rule Breakers.

0:06.0

But you sit down and be bright.

0:08.0

Celebrating women's voices.

0:10.0

You're very welcome to now you're asking with me, Marion Keys Keys and me Tara Flynn.

0:14.8

This is juicy. No limits, no limits.

0:17.2

Celebrating women.

0:18.8

Where to be a woman is the podcast celebrating the best of women's well-being. We're on a quest to find out

0:24.4

where in the world women are living their best lives. Celebrate yourself.

0:28.8

Lesson on BBC Sounds.

0:33.0

BBC Sounds, Music, Radio Podcasts.

0:37.0

We'd all like some quick and simple ways to improve our health, but we're bombarded with often conflicting advice.

0:47.0

So if you were going to do just one thing to improve your mental and physical well-being, what should it be?

0:54.0

Maybe a few squats to enhance your brain.

0:57.0

Or more bacteria to improve your mood.

1:00.0

Or even a cold shower to boost your immune system.

1:04.4

I'm Dr Michael Mosley and this is just one thing

1:09.2

where each episode will explore one thing

1:12.2

you can start doing tomorrow to improve your health or life in ways you might not expect.

1:21.0

I'm standing in our local wood at the moment just listening to the bird song and

1:27.2

picking the sound of the wood and also the smells and the green leaves they're all around me. After a year being largely

1:40.9

trapped indoors by COVID I really have come to appreciate the joy of being outside

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