Josh TrentIdentity Transformation Architect and award winning Host of the Wellness + Wisdom Podcast—a decade-strong show with over 750 episodes and 15M downloads.

Nature's Healing Power: Why We Avoid It #shorts

17 Sept 2026 · 1 min

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In this brief YouTube short, Speaker A questions why modern people avoid connecting with nature despite its purported cellular healing benefits inherited from our ancestors. Speaker B shares a personal story of being raised by forest‑ranger parents in a remote wilderness between Idaho and Utah, describing weeks of isolation, lack of electricity or phone service, and the rarity of human contact. The anecdote illustrates how their upbringing made them both resentful of and deeply aware of nature’s importance. Speaker B argues that, even though they felt damaged by isolation, the priority should be reconnecting with nature, framing it as a missing nutrient essential for human well‑being. The dialogue ends with Speaker A likening nature to a vital, yet absent, nutrient for our species.

If someone knows that nature literally on a cellular level can heal you because that's what our ancestors did for millennia, then why do you think we make up excuses not to connect with nature?
It's just priorities. We prioritize different things. There are people here who really prioritize their connection to nature and they chase it their whole lives. I grew up with 2 such parents. They decided very early that the most important thing for them was nature. And so they raised us in the middle of effing nowhere. Okay. And I resented it.
Where's the middle of effing nowhere?
The middle of effing nowhere is like in between the Idaho and the Utah border, like literally in the middle of the wilderness. There were weeks that went by where we didn't see a single soul. And there was no way to communicate. We had no electricity. So there was no phone. All there was was a handheld radio, which belonged to the government, right? Because they were forest rangers. So the most exciting thing in the universe was hearing somebody that drove down that driveway. They would just stop in. It was like in the old days, oh, look, the neighbors come to visit. There was no neighbors. It was usually another forest ranger that would drive in or a car that got lost. Oh my gosh, right? So, I'm telling you that this importance of connecting with the nature, being somebody who is greatly damaged by the level of isolation that was created in me by virtue of my parents having made that decision, I should be the person who's sitting in front of you being like, no, it's much more important to be in connection with people. I'm literally telling you that We must be in connection with nature. It is not a joke.
Yeah, it's almost like a missing nutrient of our species right now.