Honey and the Outdoors for better mental health
We’ve put so much focus on the health of the body in recent times, not only for health’s sake but also from vanities of societal pressure, that we have neglected the mind.
We face a wave of mental illnesses, most noticeably depression, in modern society, which has only been exacerbated by the global Covid lockdowns.
Apart from environmental factors such as technology and work, two of the most neglected areas that have a major effect on mood is diet and the outdoors.
In fact sunlight and vitamin D act as a mood and immunity booster and getting some sunlight has been recommended as one good strategy to fight depression and build up your immune resistance.
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Where Richard Weller, MD, is a dermatologist and sunlight researcher at the University of Edinburgh in the U.K says “I think there are probably several pathways by which sunlight and sun exposure may exert beneficial effects.”
And this one
Where the journal, Nutrition, of the Swiss research publishing group, MDPI, carries a paper by Nipith Charoenngam and Michael F Holick, of the Boston University School of Medicine and the department of medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, which goes into the mechanism of the immune reaction and how it could be influenced and goes on to say that “… apart from several physiological benefits of adequate Vitamin D, the paper reports a positive indication that the vitamin could protect people from Covid -19. An important point the paper makes is that with current lifestyles, there is widespread Vitamin D deficiency, the world over.”
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Where Daniel González Maglio, a professor at the University of Buenos Aires and researcher in the growing field of photo-immunology says, “There is now limited but convincing evidence that moderate sunlight exposure is capable of modulating the immune system and improving health.”
Moreover, diet is also being neglected as a remedy for many of the mental illnesses facing society, including depression. This article has a list of mood boosting foods:
Which says about honey:
‘Eating sugar unleashes harmful free radicals linked to disease, even cancer, inside of your body. Honey, although sweet like sugar, is packed with beneficial compounds such as quercetin and kaempferol that actually help clean up the free radicals and reduce inflammation. “Honey helps reduce inflammation, which is very important to maintaining a healthy brain,” Dr. Drew Ramsey, MD, coauthor (with Tyler Graham) of The Happiness Diet: A Nutritional Prescription for a Sharp Brain, Balanced Mood, and Lean, Energized Body, explains. “Some depression actually stems from chronic, low-grade inflammation.”’
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