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Forest Bathing Welcome! If you want to lose weight, gain muscle, increase energy levels or just generally look and feel healthier you've come to the right place. Here's where to start: Visit the Start Here and Primal Blueprint 101 pages to learn more about the Primal Lifestyle. Thanks for visiting! No claw-footed tub in the woods here. Forests, like other wild settings, engage our senses in more subtle but evolutionarily familiar ways than our typical modern environments. Yet, the research behind forest bathing takes all this a dramatic step further. As a result of these studies, government entities in Japan are partnering with the medical industry to hold free health checkups at park areas and to create designations for “official” forest therapy sites. What I love about this research is the big picture implication. On that note, everybody, have a great weekend. Join Mark Sisson and Friends at the Mohonk Mountain House this June 5-8!
Rolling River Nursery Why Trees Matter TREES are on the front lines of our changing climate. And when the oldest trees in the world suddenly start dying, it’s time to pay attention. North America’s ancient alpine bristlecone forests are falling victim to a voracious beetle and an Asian fungus. In Texas, a prolonged drought killed more than five million urban shade trees last year and an additional half-billion trees in parks and forests. In the Amazon, two severe droughts have killed billions more. The common factor has been hotter, drier weather. We have underestimated the importance of trees. For all of that, the unbroken forest that once covered much of the continent is now shot through with holes. Humans have cut down the biggest and best trees and left the runts behind. What we do know, however, suggests that what trees do is essential though often not obvious. In Japan, researchers have long studied what they call “forest bathing.” Trees also release vast clouds of beneficial chemicals.
Shamanic Extracts - Salvia Divinorum Extracts and other Ethnobotanicals Forest bathing enhances... [Int J Immunopathol Pharmacol. 2007 Apr-Jun A world of Plants for you! Live architecture: Grow your own home - Technology & science - Science - LiveScience Tolkien's hobbits would feel right at home in new dwellings made out of living tree roots and designed to protect inhabitants from earthquakes. The homegrown architecture is just one of many eco-structures a new company hopes to roll out worldwide. The concept of coaxing living trees into useful objects, sometimes called tree shaping, arborsculpture, living art or eco-architecture, isn’t new. But now engineers and plant scientists from Tel Aviv University have taken their leafy designs to the next, and more practical and playful, level. Pilot projects under way in the United States, Australia and Israel include streetlamps, gates and playground structures made entirely from trees, as well as hospital park benches that grow their own foliage for shade. "Instead of using plant branches, this patented approach takes malleable roots and shapes them into useful objects for indoors and out," said Amram Eshel of Tel Aviv University in Israel. © 2012 LiveScience.com.