{"id":222263,"date":"2025-09-22T04:02:50","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T09:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/should-we-sleep-outside-turns-out-there-are-some-benefits"},"modified":"2025-09-22T04:02:50","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T09:02:50","slug":"should-we-sleep-outside-turns-out-there-are-some-benefits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/should-we-sleep-outside-turns-out-there-are-some-benefits","title":{"rendered":"Should We Sleep Outside? Turns Out There Are Some Benefits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/should-we-sleep-outside-turns-out-there-are-some-benefits.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/articles\/PMC6562165\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2018 review<\/a> became the first meta-analysis to quantify the impact of what they termed \u201cgreenspace exposure\u201d. It sifted through five online databases leading up to January 2017 to look at the health outcomes of exposure to the great outdoors and found that \u201cgreen prescriptions\u201d could have substantial benefits to human health.<\/p>\n<p>Perks mentioned included decreased salivary cortisol (the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.iflscience.com\/cortisol-is-the-stress-hormone-really-the-health-villain-its-made-out-to-be-75242\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">stress hormone<\/a>\u201d), lower heart rate, blood pressure, and cholesterol, among others.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIncidence of stroke, hypertension, dyslipidaemia, asthma, and coronary heart disease were reduced,\u201d wrote the authors. \u201cFor several non-pooled health outcomes, between 66.7% and 100% of studies showed health-denoting associations with increased greenspace exposure, including neurological and cancer-related outcomes, and respiratory mortality.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 2018 review became the first meta-analysis to quantify the impact of what they termed \u201cgreenspace exposure\u201d. It sifted through five online databases leading up to January 2017 to look at the health outcomes of exposure to the great outdoors and found that \u201cgreen prescriptions\u201d could have substantial benefits to human health. Perks mentioned included [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222263","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\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}