Your mom was right: sometimes the best medicine is fresh air and green trees.
“Most people in the United States spend upwards of 90 percent of their time indoors,” said Robert Zarr, MD, MPH, founder ofPRA is a non-profit that enrolls physicians into their nature prescriptions program. If you visit one of these doctors, they might write you a prescription to spend time in nature.
PRA has been around since 2017 and over 1,300 doctors are registered. But more recently, Canada created a similar program called“We have a standard recommendation that patients spend at least two hours in nature each week and at least 20 minutes each time, based on the latest science,” said PaRx director and family physician, Dr. Melissa Lem.“Healthcare professionals registered in our program can prescribe one free Parks Canada Discover Pass per month to their patients,” Lem continued.
Zarr says visiting a national park or a beach is the best case scenario, but you don’t need to go far to absorb the benefits of nature. “During the pandemic, I was working with patients who were so afraid to go outside that we had to work on sunlight, even,” said Zarr. “Is there a window near you? Can you open that window? What nature is really depends on where you are and what you have access to.”“One group of patients had a window in their hospital room looking out onto trees and natural landscape,” said Zarr. “And the other room didn’t have that. They just had walls.
“I really want to see nature time being recognized as mainstream within the healthcare profession,” said Lem. “Every physician recommends a healthy diet and healthy sleep and exercise as essential for a healthy lifestyle. But not everyone’s prescribing nature. I want to make it seem like common sense. I don’t want anyone to seem surprised when their doctor prescribes nature.”
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