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hi guys I’m back with a very exciting topic today we’re going to talk about

using forest bathing to boost your immune system now this was used in Japan

in the 80s for physical and mental health this is not about just actually taking a

bath in nature it’s about getting out in nature and breathing in or taking in the

forest atmosphere so there’s three interesting studies I want to just talk

about briefly and they’re out of Japan and they relate to being out the forest

being exposed to native evergreens like the spruce and pine and other evergreen

trees so this is the essence of forest bathing you’re out in the forest and

you’re breathing in certain chemicals from these trees there are essential

oils they isolated this really interesting immune benefit from being

exposed to certain essential oils that are actually being emitted from the

trees in the forest so that group of compounds is phytoncides now there’s

many different individual chemicals in this category but here’s what they found

this chemical significantly increases your natural killer cells now the

natural killer cells are part of the immune system under the innate section

the innate category of the immune system is something you’re born with these

white blood cells don’t have to be trained they just know what to do and

natural killer cells do a several things one thing is they will punch a hole into

cells that have been infected by viruses and caused the cell to commit suicide so

they destroy not just a cell but the virus inside it and they have certain

chemical weapons that they use there’s actually three studies and I put the

links down below the first study was in 2006 it was performed in a small group

of people for three days and two nights that went into the forest and they did

before and after testing and they found significant increase in the number of

killer T cells as well as a significant spike in this compound the next study

was done in 2008 for three days and then they compared that to people that were

in the city that actually went out for a and they spend time relaxing they just

wanted to differentiate is it something in the forest or is it just about going

for a walk okay and they found people in the forest that did the to our walks had

significant increase but not only do they find a spike in killer T cells but

also in the weapon tree that that cell uses to annihilate virus infected cells

now in the last study which was done in 2009 this was done in a hotel room and

what they did is they infused this essential oil with this chemical

throughout the air and guess what they found

they found significant increases in natural killer cells and the weapon tree

that they use in addition to that they also check their adrenaline levels and

they found that their adrenaline was decrease so not only did they have the

immune benefit but they had the stress reduction benefit at the same time and

one last thing I wanted to show you okay these are two groups the forest group

and the city group and these are all the essential oils that are being admitted

from the trees in summary I want to emphasize again and I’ve done this in

several videos the great importance of strengthening your immune system and

here’s a real natural inexpensive way to do it to stimulate your natural killer

cells and the weapon tree they use to kill off viruses getting out in nature

spending some time walking in the woods being exposed to all these amazing

things that are emitted from these trees and one last interesting thing I want to

make note of is that the effects that were created in the body lasted for at

least a couple weeks once you’re out of lockdown hopefully very soon you can get

out in the woods be exposed to these trees and really receive the benefit the

immune benefits that you can get from being out in nature