Feel better, be healthier and live longer
Ever wonder why a short walk outside reduces your stress levels and helps you resolve a problem? A dive into the ocean clears your head and boosts your creative thinking? An afternoon in the forest enhances your mood and leads to a better night's sleep?
The Natural Advantage provides evidence-based proof that connecting more with nature positively impacts our health. Learn how nature's medicines - the earth, water, air, sunshine and animals - can improve your sight, hearing, smell, taste, heart and soul. In turn, time in nature can help you make better lifestyle choices around nutrition, exercise and sleep to elevate health, well-being and happiness.
In this entertaining, enlightening and practical book, Dr Jenny Brockis reveals proven, effective, easy-to-implement, nature-based activities that make you feel better. It is jam-packed with ideas and strategies to motivate even the most reluctant reader to step outside and enjoy nature's abundant health benefits.
"Dr Jenny Brockis has, once again, masterfully distilled extensive international research into a reader-friendly guide, rich with actionable insights. With an engaging style, Dr Brockis pairs ancestral wisdom with cutting-edge science, leaving the reader with no doubt about the connections between nature and human well-being. The Natural Advantage affirms Dr Brockis' international status as a trusted authority on the science of lifestyle medicine" Alan C. Logan, co-author of Your Brain, on Nature
"A brilliant and concise summary about all that's wrong with modern life - and more importantly, what we need to do about it to restore balance in the modern world through the biopsychosocial model of health. I highly recommend that you buy this book, implement the strategies and then enjoy the fruits of your labour for the rest of your life."
Paul Taylor, exercise physiologist, nutritionist, neuroscientist, podcaster and author of Death by Comfort
"An insightful exploration of our innate connection to nature and the health and lifestyle benefits of this connection. The link to lifestyle medicine adds weight to the argument for including time spent in nature as another fundamental pillar of thriving health and well-being." Simon Matthews FACLM FASLM MHlthSc DipIBLM, psychologist and coach