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Why sitting in nature can lower your stress

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Doctors call it 'forest bathing,' but it is just sitting outside like our ancestors did for millennia. Being surrounded by trees literally turns down your sympathetic nervous system, proving that concrete jungles are biologically hostile environments for human apes.

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