Connection to Nature

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A connection to Nature is a critical part of human health. If you’re familiar with “grounding,” or “earthing,” you know that your body needs to electrically connect to the earth. Electrical charges from the earth can have positive effects on your body and studies have shown that grounding can help with many conditions including inflammation, cardiovascular disease, muscle damage, chronic pain, and mood.

According to this NCBI study, grounding affects the living matrix, which is the central connector between living cells. The living matrix contains electrical conductivity that functions as an immune system defense, similar to antioxidants. Thus, grounding can help restore the natural defenses of the body.

There is substantial research that proves that a connection to nature can make you healthier and happier.

Here are some of the major benefits of going outside and consciously interacting with Mother Nature:

Going outside provides you your daily dose of Vitamin D. Although you can find vitamin D in salmon and fortified milk, you actually get more than 90 percent of it fro casual exposure to sunlight.
Going outside boosts your immune system. It is common knowledge that your gut microbiome (the bacterial diversity of your gut) plays a major role in your immune system. You probably know that you can take Probiotics in order to populate your gut microbiome with “good bacteria.” What you’re less likely to know is that Probiotics offer an extremely low number of different strains of bacteria