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'A direct relationship between your sense of sight and recovery rate': Biologist Kathy Willis on why looking at nature can speed up healing

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Kathy Willis , a professor of biodiversity at the University of Oxford , has written a new book about the health benefits of being surrounded by nature.

She says there are significant changes that occur in our bodies when our senses interact with nature.

Looking at savannas can make us feel more relaxed, and touching wood makes us calmer .

The chapter that most surprised me was the one on smell.

When you breathe in a plant scent, molecules are volatile organic compounds that pass across your lung membrane into your blood.

The difference we get from smell is huge, and it's such an interesting and often ignored sense.

These are the sorts of things we can all do. We don't need to wait for someone to prescribe us..

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