The Observer.

The Observer.

Math, I have to tell you this, this is so important.

I've been researching CBD, looking for the answer to why you were so well

when we were walking and why you're deteriorating so quickly now. It's the summer of 2015 in Rainer

Wyn's second book, The Wild Silence. The couple are living in the Cornish coastal town of

Polruin and Moth's been studying horticulture at

university, but the sedentary lifestyle means his health is getting worse. The neurological

condition he has means his memory's going, and he's losing weight and limping. In desperation,

Rainer starts digging into medical papers, trying to understand why Moth's health was so much better when they took their massive walk

along the South West Coastal path the previous year. I showed him the research and made him read

about patients with Alzheimer's who had undergone endurance training,

and had miraculously regained some cognitive abilities, which doctors had believed were lost forever.

Don't you see? That's what the path was for us, extreme endurance training.

We were walking miles every day, carrying heavy weights on a really restricted diet.

It's the same thing. Moth has CBD, not Alzheimer's, but both illnesses involve a buildup of

protein in the brain, so Raina thinks this study must be relevant. Then she tells Moth about another paper

that shows that plants release chemicals that have a positive effect on humans. Surely this proves it,

proves what I've always believed. We need the plants, the land, the natural world, we actually

physically need it.

I'm convinced it's part of the answer to why your health was so much better while you were

walking. It has to be.

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