{"id":208886,"date":"2025-03-17T02:09:20","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T07:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/looking-at-images-of-nature-does-something-powerful-in-the-brain"},"modified":"2025-03-17T02:09:20","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T07:09:20","slug":"looking-at-images-of-nature-does-something-powerful-in-the-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/looking-at-images-of-nature-does-something-powerful-in-the-brain","title":{"rendered":"Looking at Images of Nature Does Something Powerful in The Brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/looking-at-images-of-nature-does-something-powerful-in-the-brain.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Simply looking at nature \u2013 or even just digital pictures of it \u2013 can relieve pain, according to new research which scanned the brains of people receiving electrical shocks.<\/p>\n<p>Nature\u2019s many health benefits have been documented by decades of research.<\/p>\n<p>More than 40 years ago, a pioneering study showed that hospitalized patients needed fewer painkillers and recovered quicker when they looked out of a window onto green space rather than a brick wall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simply looking at nature \u2013 or even just digital pictures of it \u2013 can relieve pain, according to new research which scanned the brains of people receiving electrical shocks. Nature\u2019s many health benefits have been documented by decades of research. More than 40 years ago, a pioneering study showed that hospitalized patients needed fewer painkillers [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}