Forest Bathing | Explorer

if you think back in your life can you
think of a particular tree that was
significant to you in some way and I’d
invite you to actually go and have a
conversation with that tree so I’m gonna
go say hello to a tree a tree I’m David
Marshall Gustin and jr. pleased to meet
you it turns out there’s hard science
behind this forest bathing is based on
something called shinden yuku that was
developed in japan in the 1980s
researchers there have proven that
walking in nature reduces stress
hormones and lowers blood pressure and
heart rate pretty standard stuff but
they’ve also discovered something about
trees that kind of blows my mind
some trees like Cypress give off
chemical compounds called fightin sides
we absorb the fighting sides and they
promote our natural killer cells which
help us fight cancer we can experience a
40% increase in our natural killer cells
from just walking in the woods I’d say
that’s a pretty good reason to start
talking to trees