Getting out into nature and breathing fresh air enhances your immune system! ⛰️🌲🌲 • Plants give off phytoncides, an airborne chemical that's part of a plants defense system. When we are breathing fresh air in nature, we inhale high concentrations of these phytoncides and our bodies respond by producing more natural killer cells. 🍃 • NK cells are a type of white blood cell that is reponsible for killing off tumor cells and virus infected cells in our bodies. 👊🏼 • One Study looking at the effects of forest bathing on immune function found that the increase in natural killer cell activity lasted for more than 30 days after a weekend exposure! Link to study: (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2793341) • • This is just one of the hundreds of benefits you get from being out in nature! Get off your couch, put a pause on that Netflix binge, and go for a hike! Better yet, go camping for the weekend! 🏕️🌲 • • • • #nature #health #forestbathing #outdoors #increaseimmunity #antic...