How Nature Prevents Cognitive Decline
Channel: Evan Brand
Date: 17/02/2016

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Today I went out to the forest to talk about some of the benefits of nature. Rumination and negative thinking is toxic and can cause depression over time. With too much time spent on social media and the internet in general we are left to sit around and think. Our hunter gatherer ancestors would have not had the luxury to think very far in the future, they lived in the moment.

Here some of the research shows that nature causes a reduction in the blood flow in the prefrontal cortex of the brain, therefore reducing rumination.

RESEARCH:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17...
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24...
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26...