Can the scent of wood essential oils replicate the immunity-boosting effect of walking through the forest?
“Forest Bathing,” or the Japanese study on the effects of Shimizu, “traditional practices characterized by visiting the forest and breathing air” “inducing a significant increase in the number of natural killers and activity I found out I can do it (nk) cells” could last for a month. Also, natural killer cells are one of the ways our bodies fight cancer by killing tumor cells, “The findings show that visiting forest parks is preventive for cancer production and progression.” It suggests that there is a possibility. “How? “Why did the forest environment increase human NK activity? What factors in the forest environment activate human NK cells?” What about the forest environment?
One idea is that boosting may be associated with reduced stress. If you measure the amount of adrenaline that flows through people’s systems, you spend your time in the forest, but have your adrenaline levels lower than your city? Yes, why does forest bathing enhance natural killer cell functionality, as you can see in my video at 0:58?
However, when adrenaline is added to human blood cells in a Petri dish, it appears that there is no effect on NK cells. The stress hormone cortisol, on the other hand, dramatically suppresses the activity of natural killer cells, as shown at 1:09 in my video. So, being in the woods can make you feel less stressful, less cortisol, and release a natural killer cell under that thumb, giving you a boost?
We know that surrounded by nature can reduce the levels of saliva cortisol, but how about our blood flow? Researchers found a significant drop in stress hormones after a day trip to the forest. A week later, cortisol was normalised as seen here and at 1:30 in my video, but the effects of the forest seemed to last for a month. Is there anything else that could cause long-term immune system changes?
Maybe we’re missing out on some of our “old friends.” Sample outdoor air allows you to pick up abundant microorganisms from the soil and water floating water, but indoor air does not. (Indoor air is dominated by organisms that live in us or try to attack us.) Therefore, on a daily basis, we “encounter” in terms of keeping our immune system ready. That may not be enough. The biased microbiota of modern synthetic indoor environments that lack some of our old friends and are unlikely to resemble the microbiota we encountered throughout our evolutionary history. ”
Or perhaps it is the plant itself. It probably smells like a forest. Trees produce aromatic volatile compounds called phytonsides, like pinene, which can be inhaled into the lungs when they are in the forest. Do these compounds actually enter our bloodstream? In fact, after spending an hour in the forest, you get a six-fold increase in the circulating pinene levels throughout the system. To fully connect all dots, phytonsides like pinene (an essential oil from wood) must induce natural killer cell activity in humans. What do you guess? The title of the study was “Phytoncides (wood essential oils) induce the activity of human natural killer cells.” When natural killer cells are placed in a Petri dish containing leukemia cells, NK cells wipe out some of the cancer cells You can do it. However, if you add a whim of cypress, white cedar, eucalyptus, or pine, in my video, cancer cells at 3:14 cannot withstand chances, as shown below.
Wood scent combination Improvements Mouse recovery depends on the slant hand, but this is the study I was looking for: “The effect of plants from trees on natural killer cell function in humans.” If you want to know if the magical ingredients are forest scents, then simply evaporate essential oils from one of the trees into your hotel room overnight and get the same boost in natural killer cell activity Let’s take a look. It worked! As you can see here, the natural killer cell activity was greatly boosted, with my video at 3:40.
However, only NK activity is boosted, not the number of natural killer cells, and being in the actual forest can enhance both. So perhaps it’s a combination of woody aroma and lower cortisol levels.
Ironically, these plant compounds are part of the trees’ immune system and may be able to direct them. As you can see in my video at 4:05, the researchers have a role in the fact that areas of heavier forested areas in Japan appear to have lower mortality rates for breast and prostate cancer. I’m guessing it’s possible. Certainly, being in nature is known to be an “important coping strategy among cancer patients”, but the scent of the wood may help us better deal with it yeah.
Spending time in the forest increases the activity of NK cells significantly. In my previous blog, I discussed boosting anti-cancer immunity with forest bathing.
You may remember that I have touched on this topic before. Are there any health benefits of spending time in nature?
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