Health Science Outdoors

Health Science Outdoors

If you’re interested in a little science lesson… Small amounts of environmental stressors such as cold exposure, heat exposure, or exercise activate hormesis which is the body’s natural reaction to physical stress stimuli to activate increased production of healthy new mitochondria. Mitochondria are the power plants of our cells. The more healthy mitochondria, the healthier…

Gardening for Depression

Gardening for Depression

Gardening helps depression! First of all, happy microbes under your fingernails. Then weeding is focused, productive meditation. You get so focused on determining what is a weed and what is a seedling you’re trying to grow, that the depressing thoughts or the ache in your heart pauses. You get in the zone mentally and it’s…