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6. Will Your Next Prescription Be 20 Minutes of Nature a Day?

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/will-your-next-prescription-be-20-minutes-nature-day-2024a10006j0
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What if a walk in a green environment could reshape brains, recalibrate sense of time, and stave off mental health conditions? If the research trends are true, you might soon find yourself writing prescriptions of 20 minutes of nature per day.

Evidence for the health benefits of exposure to green spaces, like parks, open spaces, gardens, outdoor gyms, and woodland trails, has been mostly interventional and observational, but that has not stopped global recognition that these exposures are important.

In the wake of the pandemic, the British government allocated more than £5 million to pandemic recovery efforts that specifically involved green spaces. Since then, it has committed even more funding toward an expansive social prescribing program that connects patients to "link workers" who determine personal care needs and facilitate community and volunteer-based interventions. These can include group walking and volunteering to help out in community gardens or conservation efforts. Similar green programs can also be found in Japan, where shinrin-yoku (forest bathing) was recently adopted as a national health strategy, and in the US and Canada.

"Disconnection from nature is a major part of the health problems that we have on this planet," said William Bird, a UK-based general practitioner, green prescriber, and CEO of Intelligent Health, which is geared toward building healthy, active, and connected communities. Bird received the prestigious Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in 2010 for services to physical activity and health.

"Our brains are designed to connect to nature…and we haven't lost that instinct," he explained. "Once we are with birdsong and water flowing and greenery, cortisol levels drop, our central vagus nerve improves, our fight and flight [response] disappears, and we start to be more receptive to other people."