Stress and adrenal fatigue is a plague in our modern world. I wrote about the connection between stress and depression/anxiety, but it goes so much further than that. The stress response at one point gave our ancestors the energy and endurance they required to escape life-threatening dangers. Stress in our society doesn’t always let up – our jobs, relationships, environmental stress and the stress of world events are always staring us in the face. Research reported by the National Institutes of Health, links long term activation of stress to having a hazardous effect on our bodies, increasing risk of obesity, heart disease, depression, anorexia, and lowering our immune system.
Years ago, when I was still a student of interior design, I wrote my design thesis on healing environments. I was fascinated with the fact that gardens and plants used in offices and healthcare settings could have a dramatic healing effect. I now have a lot of knowledge of how consuming plants has an effect on our health, but were you aware that they can influence our psychology and rate of healing by just being in their presence?
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