Regular time in nature can ease anxiety and depression as much as medication. The research suggests 20 minutes daily under a tree for three months produces measurable effects comparable to pharmaceutical treatment.
And if somebody could have the opportunity to go for a walk in the forest rather than take a Prozac, they may have a very different experience of what it is that they were originally taking that Prozac for. If it becomes therapy, if we could prescribe, you've got to go to the forest for 20 minutes or your local park or your local arboretum or wherever it is. You have to step out of the busyness and you have to sit for 20 minutes underneath a tree, and you have to do that for the next three months. How amazing would that be? And now the research has been done that demonstrates that the effect of that is equal to, if not more effective than, masking the symptoms with a pharmaceutical medication.
Olga, we gotta underscore that. So you just said that the benefits of being out in nature on a consistent basis for a sustained period of time is equal to or better than that of taking medicines to deal with anxiety or depression. Did I hear you right? Yes, you did.
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