Friday Favorites: Boosting Anticancer Natural Killer Cell Function with Forest Bathing

Visiting a forest can induce a significant increase in both the number and activity of natural killer cells, one of the ways our body fights off cancer. Can the aroma of wood essential oils replicate the immune-boosting effects of walking in a forest?
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[@ashfunmusiclife]

This is awesome!!! We all need to get to nature, ponder a daydream and thrive!

[@Renatus_Eruditus]

So glad to hear an update on forest bathing for immunomodulation.
Please update us on blueberries boosting NK Cell production/activity and other benefits!

[@amyb9556]

I wonder how much more benefit there is when you live in the woods.

[@lil----lil]

You're a LIFESAVER. Your book "How not to die" saved my life. Thank YOU. Dr. Gregor.

[@KrisWiltseArt]

I wonder if near infrared light also has a synergistic, positive effect. green reflects it. I live in the woods. Bath in it and smell it day and night. Love it!

[@Alexander-ok7fm]

Thank you! Is ist possible to imitate the effects of forest bathing with essential oils or houseplants?

[@AndrewPawley11]

I love this channel!

[@Mr.N0.0ne]

It's Thursday.

[@ScheveSneeuwSchuifSchep]

Maybe he's on a holiday in New Zealand lol

[@assetdesigncenter]

does it work in the winter? plenty of Forest Preserves here in the Chicago suburbs. I'll start to make it part of my weekly routine

[@skpjoecoursegold366]

I live in an Oak Forest mix of pine, does that count?

[@reinux]

I kind of wonder if the salivary cortisol drop when thinking about going forest bathing might be because in the sampling prior to that, the subjects' stress was elevated because they didn't know what kind of medical trial it would be.

[@anaborella1972]

Does it mean that a person living in a forest has less chance to develop cancer? All types?

[@XavierBasurto777]

why would someone want to go to a forest once a week at a high cost when instead, the parents could help insure the child grows up with all the belongings of the parents at the time of birth and have time to spend in as much forest for a period to where they would have spent enough time to match the once a week, going to a forest?

[@dandavis2981]

Friday favorites? Videos arent being released on correct schedule.