{"id":79111,"date":"2018-05-26T13:23:18","date_gmt":"2018-05-26T20:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/why-living-near-forests-can-benefit-your-mental-health"},"modified":"2018-05-26T13:23:18","modified_gmt":"2018-05-26T20:23:18","slug":"why-living-near-forests-can-benefit-your-mental-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/why-living-near-forests-can-benefit-your-mental-health","title":{"rendered":"Why living near forests can benefit your mental health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/why-living-near-forests-can-benefit-your-mental-health.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is rush hour and you are crammed inside a train carriage with a stranger\u2019s armpit pressing against your face. Are you feeling relaxed?<\/p>\n<p>Studies <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/neuro\/journal\/v12\/n10\/full\/nn.2381.html\">have shown<\/a> that repeated infringement of personal space in cities can trigger the brain\u2019s threat system, which makes us feel stressed.<\/p>\n<p>Other factors such as constant contact with strangers and traffic noise all contribute to city dwellers being most likely to suffer from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/neuro\/journal\/v18\/n10\/full\/nn.4108.html\">chronic stress<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/agenda\/2017\/10\/living-near-forests-is-good-for-your-brain\/?utm_source=Facebook Videos&utm_medium=Facebook Videos&utm_campaign=Facebook Video Blogs\">https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/agenda\/2017\/10\/living-near-forests-i...PACE#Blogs<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is rush hour and you are crammed inside a train carriage with a stranger\u2019s armpit pressing against your face. Are you feeling relaxed? Studies have shown that repeated infringement of personal space in cities can trigger the brain\u2019s threat system, which makes us feel stressed. Other factors such as constant contact with strangers and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1495,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79111","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}