Tag: forest
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For Alzheimer’s Sufferers, Brain Inflammation Ignites a Neuron-Killing “Forest Fire”
Getty Images For decades researchers have focused their attacks against Alzheimer’s on two proteins, amyloid beta and tau. Their buildup in the brain often serves as a defining indicator of the disease. Get rid of the amyloid and tau, and patients should do better, the thinking goes. But drug trial after drug trial has failed…
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Why Biophilia Needs To Be Part of Your Next Holiday
Engaging with nature on vacation can not only make you feel more rested and restored, it can also enhance wellbeing when you’re back home. It’s a cool but sunny spring morning as I step over rocks and past mountain laurel bushes into a wooded Connecticut land preserve. Only the trill of titmice and robins overhead…