With all the research on the health benefits of the outdoors, can it be long before physicians are prescribing nature for their patients? Well in some areas they already are. Here are 2 excellent articles explaining more:
1) Bare hopes the studies will establish nature as a viable therapy for a range of ailments, from depression and post-traumatic stress disorder to traumatic brain injury and dementia. More important, he wants to establish credibility with the mainstream medical community and insurance companies.
https://www.outsideonline.com/2127271/time-for-doctors-prescribe-outdoor-therapy
2) Zarr told me that exhorting patients to “get more exercise” was too vague. Last year, he decided to start trying something different. He stopped asking his patients, “Do you move?” and began asking “Where do you move?” He discovered that many spent very little time outdoors, and he began prescribing time outside for conditions as wide-ranging as ADHD, high blood pressure, asthma, obesity, anxiety, diabetes, and depression.
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