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Years of careful study has proven that spending time in a forest can reduce stress, anxiety, depression and anger; strengthen the immune system, improve cardiovascular and metabolic health and boost overall well-being. Exploration Local Host, Mike Andress, discusses his own personal struggle with depression and anxiety and the freedom he experiences from being in the outdoors. He shares some helpful resources like The Nature Fix and Forest Bathing that open the door to the modern affliction of "nature deficit disorder" and research that supports the health benefit claims of the healing properties of "nature therapy".
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