The Elixir of Life: Could Soil Be the Key to Longevity?
Research suggests that skin to soil contact is packed with tangible benefits for our immune system, mental health, and general longevity.
Some gardeners cultivate flower gardens while others choose to focus on their vegetable patches in an effort to achieve self-sufficiency. Growing your own garden is a real labor of love and the sense of pride and accomplishment alone is reason enough to do it.
But gardening offers many other tangible benefits you may not have considered.
Cultivating a healing garden, for example, can provide your whole household with a variety of natural remedies to improve your health outcomes. But, it turns out, just spending time outdoors and playing with the nutrient-rich soil in your backyard could be reason enough to pick up a spade.
Studies have shown that skin-to-soil contact improved people’s health outcomes and increased longevity.
And when researchers in the US compared farmworkers to the general population, they found that farmworkers were less likely to die from cancer, heart disease or diabetes.
