Biologist Kathy Willis takes a deep dive into how sensory connection with the natural world can help make us healthier and happier in her new book Good Nature.
The innate immune system releases multiple inflammatory cytokines in response to pathogens, and these cytokines directly combat the infectious agent and recruit additional immune responses.
On top of that, the sounds we hear out and about in nature are proven to calm us down. As for why, it depends on the sound. However Trevor says that a lot of the time it’s related to ...