Is there any charity/project/company trying to effectively improve people’s mental health by encouraging them to frequent green spaces?
Please, don’t misunderstand me, I’m no green activist, but I’ve seen so many mentions to increasing anxiety and depression (I’m not sure if it’s true), and so many diagnoses (it’s the internet, the economy, the culture...)… but almost no one mentions that we’re the first (maybe the second) generation to spend most of our lives indoors. I could provide some anecdotal evidence, but I guess the link between green spaces and happiness is veryplausible and generally not contested by literature.
(I wouldn’t say it could cure depression, but it might improve welfare. Our bodies and brains were designed by evolution to run on savannah and hunt big game… I mean, even people i know that went through stressful situations in the wild actually use to treasure these memories with joy; I mean, I know I was tired and and wet and trying not to freeze to death… but it seems like I was having fun. I don’t think anyone needs to get into the middle of the jungle to get the benefits of green spaces; we should probably observe some positive effect if we could just get young people from cold climates to go to a park a little bit during winter, instead of closing themselves at home for four months)
Yeah, Even I agreed with the same opinion, mental illness may be one of the world’s most ongoing, disorder, people are facing. No one can ever become Stress-less, as life is meant to live along with tensions, by keeping the positive possibilities in mind. But At a certain age, when the body starts affecting and you lose physical balance along with the mental balance, you may seek for someone to care for you all the time. The one, who can even manage and manipulate the legal affairs like Elder law attorneys in mercer county NJ can help such elders and can bring a joy of hope.
I googled a little bit on vitamin D and depression. There’s a correlation (of course!), but the only meta-analysis of RCTs I considered worth reading didn’t find significant effects from vit D intake - but they didn’t regard it as conclusive. It would be remarkable if it all amounted to vit D defficiency
A review of vitamin D meta-analyses reporting on all-cause mortality yields a meta-analytic result of RR=0.96 with little heterogeneity or signs of bias. Reproducing it as a Bayesian random-effects meta-analysis gives a posterior predictive probability P=84% that RR<1.0. The expected life expectancy gain is 0.33 years or $16,800, while total cost of vitamin D supplementation is estimated at $761, for a profit of $15,300. The probability of being profitable is estimated at P=83%. The optimal beginning age is 24yo.
Is there any charity/project/company trying to effectively improve people’s mental health by encouraging them to frequent green spaces?
Please, don’t misunderstand me, I’m no green activist, but I’ve seen so many mentions to increasing anxiety and depression (I’m not sure if it’s true), and so many diagnoses (it’s the internet, the economy, the culture...)… but almost no one mentions that we’re the first (maybe the second) generation to spend most of our lives indoors. I could provide some anecdotal evidence, but I guess the link between green spaces and happiness is very plausible and generally not contested by literature.
(I wouldn’t say it could cure depression, but it might improve welfare. Our bodies and brains were designed by evolution to run on savannah and hunt big game… I mean, even people i know that went through stressful situations in the wild actually use to treasure these memories with joy; I mean, I know I was tired and and wet and trying not to freeze to death… but it seems like I was having fun. I don’t think anyone needs to get into the middle of the jungle to get the benefits of green spaces; we should probably observe some positive effect if we could just get young people from cold climates to go to a park a little bit during winter, instead of closing themselves at home for four months)
Yeah, Even I agreed with the same opinion, mental illness may be one of the world’s most ongoing, disorder, people are facing. No one can ever become Stress-less, as life is meant to live along with tensions, by keeping the positive possibilities in mind. But At a certain age, when the body starts affecting and you lose physical balance along with the mental balance, you may seek for someone to care for you all the time. The one, who can even manage and manipulate the legal affairs like Elder law attorneys in mercer county NJ can help such elders and can bring a joy of hope.
I googled a little bit on vitamin D and depression. There’s a correlation (of course!), but the only meta-analysis of RCTs I considered worth reading didn’t find significant effects from vit D intake - but they didn’t regard it as conclusive. It would be remarkable if it all amounted to vit D defficiency
See also: https://www.gwern.net/Longevity#vitamin-d