Welcome to the Doctor Burg, Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast.

Now, your host, the man taking your health to a whole new level.

Doctor Eric Burg.

Hi, guys. I'm back with a very exciting topic.

Today, we're going to talk about using forest bathing to boost your immune system.

Now, this was used in Japan in the 80s for physical and mental health.

This is not about just actually taking a bath in nature.

It's about getting out in nature and breathing in or taking in the forest atmosphere.

So, there's three interesting studies I want to just talk about briefly.

And they're out of Japan, and they relate to being out the forest,

being exposed to native evergreen, like the spruce, and pine, and other evergreen trees.

So, this is the essence of forest bathing.

You're out in the forest, and you're breathing in certain chemicals from these trees. They're essential oils.

They isolated this really interesting immune benefit from being exposed to certain essential oils

that are actually being emitted from the trees in the forest.

So, that group of compounds is fight on sides.

Now, there's many different individual chemicals in this category,

but here's what they found. This chemical significantly increases your natural killer cells.

Now, the natural killer cells are part of the immune system under the innate section.

The innate category of your immune system is something that you're born with.

These white blood cells don't have to be trained. They just know what to do.

And natural killer cells do a several things.

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