Garden Like Your Life Depends On It? The Health Research Says So
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- Опубліковано 27 чер 2024
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A look at the gardening health research from ancient and depression to dementia and longevity.
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I gardened like 6 hours this morning and I was so calm when I finished that even watching clips from the presidential debate last night could only give me mild existential anxiety...
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Haaaaa Dems are toast, thank gawd
Gardening is like having plant pets. I just started my basil collection.😏
So true!
Sprout in a jar if you don’t have land. It is so easy and healthy 💚🌿🙌
For those who don't have a backyard, growing mushrooms indoors is an option. I grew lion's mane mushrooms inside which make amazing steak replacements if you cook them right. They taste different than steak but just as good. Actually more like mild seafood.
Nicely done.
After retiring from the healthcare industry with a wicked case of PTSD, gardening as a hobby has paid off in better mental health for me.
My late grandparents ( and now my aunt after them ) were partially self-sufficient thanks to their big garden.
Their fresh veggies tasted the best.
I like your shirt! I don’t think it’s too loud at all
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Same here and matches your eyes, brings out the color.
I know. It isn't even loud, in the least. The colour is good.
I've 100 plus plants in my house and I love it!
Being in our garden as a child is part of my best memories. Sitting in a pear or plum tree, just eating away, or just watching things grow and flourish. I'm creating a new garden now and that will probably be my main project for the rest of my life.
In the Victorian asylums the patients worked producing vegetables. Perhaps the Victorian doctors new this !
I could imagine that gardening also reduses food waste just because you know how much work goes into growing food so you appreciate it more
Damn! I just yesterday thought that a vegan influencer should talk about the benefits of gardening. And here it is! I have been a gardener for about 15 years. Turning over the soil and working in manure is hard physical work. It forces me to get on my hands and knees to do weeding. There is nothing more miraculous than watching a plant grow from a tiny seed into a plant and then edible vegetables. I love growing kohlrabi, potatoes, and red beets (yep, gotta watch those oxalates!). Where I live, there is a real gift giving culture and my fresh vegetables are a big hit with my wife's Facebook friends. They gladly pay for having a box of veggies shipped to themselves! A few hardship cases get the veggies shipped at our expense. I started counting in my head all the different people my wife has given vegetables to and I gave up at a hundred. I like to imagine I have contributed to their physical health. I remember being involuntarily retired five years ago and gardening has restored my positive outlook and given me a sense of accomplishment. Heck, I can't even get angry when the deer sneak into the city and eat my potato plants like they did a few days ago. The potato plants just grow new leaves! Just when gardening starts to get a little boring, harvest season comes around and then you have all winter to dream about what you are going to grow next spring!
You really should get into permaculture. No turning the soil, no pulling weeds. It's just easier. I guess being better for your ecosystem, is some benefit too. If the fungi stops getting disturbed, the food will be more nutritious, so some benefit in that too
Also, some of those weeds make calcium more available, as does the fungi, so if you are eating those oxalate foods, there will be enough calcium in those foods to bind to the calcium, so it is removed in your poop
Wonderful timing. Everyone needs to relax right now.
I have personally found that gardening combats rumination and thus improves my mental health. I feel like my brain gets to relax while I zone out weeding. It's also great exercise and gets me that vitamin D. Got some snatched glutes from pulling stubborn weeds and pulling my cart, too. I am very privileged to have recently bought a 1/3 acre plot with my dream garden. Not everyone has access to enough outdoor space.
Life isn't worth living without gardening. There's definitely a mental and social well-being factor. I have gardening neighbours and we exchange info and things we grow. It's so good to give and to receive. There's some very inexpensive ways to garden in small areas including on balconies. That's where creativity and just doing it really is the way forward.
My grandma lived to 102 and was an amazing gardener.
I've gardened my own "food plants" (kales, collards, chard, etc.) for about ten years and love it. Glad your garden is doing well, and that it helped you lower COVID stress, Mic. Right on, garden! Another benefit I find is composting: not throwing out your organic plant waste in service of creating your own fertilizer. Pretty helpful, cost-effective, and fun to do. After seeing your video, think I now need to plant arugula!
There's a social aspect to gardening too. I know a few other people who have a ton of corn, and I have a ton of lettuce, so we discussed having a mini farmer's market at the local gym. One of the best things about gardening is nerding out with other gardeners!
Sweet! Have you ever checked out Homegrown Handgathered? Rented Community plot...heads up, not vegan, tho
. . . thoroughly enjoyed this one, too, as all your other vids...I've never been able to keep plants alive, but, now in my later years, I'm still trying - refuse to give up - I call them my green babies . . . 🥰
Thanks for taking time to put all of this together Mic! As a person who is 100% plant-based, it only makes sense to do whatever you can to grow plants. 🌱😃
When I read the title of this video, I thought it was referring to the impact of the climate emergency on our food security. In the UK the crazy weather has led to significant crop failures, both here and in Europe, where much of our food is grown. Our lives really may depend on being able to grow our own food soon.
I started a new garden after the pandemic in Minnesota, I have had success with the no dig method. Recently I have been watching lots of bio-char videos a component in Terra preta hopefully I can use what I have learned in my garden next year. Bio char is like light charcoal that has been quenched with water before the fire turns it into ash. You then activate it with micro organisms its kind of like taking the surface area of a football field and condensing it into a pea.
I have been gardening a ton lately and it’s very satisfying.
I have also been gardening since the plandemic. I found myself staring to call it my happy place but not noticing that it was because I was more relaxed, blood pressure was lower etc. Gardener for life. Guess I got one good thing from 2020!
U ACTUALLY GOT ME THERE WITH THE DEMENTIA THING, KING LOL
I think the shirt brings out your eyes. Haters can kick rocks. ❤
My grandpa had a huge garden and a Christmas tree plantation and was always outside doing something with them. He was active and relatively healthy and just seemed so content sharing his passions with me. I now live in the middle of suburbia, but my husband made me a 10x10' garden space in our backyard and I absolutely feel the benefits of gardening. It gets me outside and my severe anxiety disappears when I'm out there. Plus the benefits of having homemade salsa and marinara year round! Inside, I collect orchids and love seeing all my little plant babies constantly blooming.
When I lived in a >400 sq ft apartment, I used to grow things in pots just outside my door. I had a chili plant, green onion, some herbs, flowers and succulents, even a pineapple. It was the best part of having an outdoor corridor in that apartment. The plants also loved it there for some reason, especially the succulents and flowers. I've not had as much success with succulents or flowers since.
Hi Mic. I'm a Lifestyle Medicine physician and strongly believe in the health benefits of gardening. Was lucky enough to give a talk at the 2023 International Plant Based Nutrition Healthcare Conference on this very topic. You covered a number of studies that I wasn't aware of but will incorporate into future talks. Thanks!
Shirts need to be loud! You look marvelous!
This is ironic I just watched "The Judge" movie and the story sets the death of his wife from kneeling in the garden and causing a blood clot. I thought when watching that it was a very odd story line. Could you get blood clots from kneeling?
This is why I am in the middle of a career change to horticulture. Volunteering at community gardens made me realize all the benefits, especially in community and exercise, and I saw it in others I met as well. Currently, I intern at a botanical garden and I think one positive to add is that when you have a garden, it can become something to talk about with anyone, regardless of different backgrounds and usually different politics, interests, etc. Gardening feels like an innate common interest in all of us, even if it just means some of us eat veggies from a garden or visit a public one for fun.
Shirt brings out the color of your eyes. They jealous lol
I love gardening. It is relaxing for meedit:until the gophers get to my plants😂
Yes!!! Finally!!! I'm so glad you are covering gardening!!! ❤❤🎉🎉❤❤
Best thing I've done for my physical, mental and emotional state. Such a crazily underestimated process that our species has done for so long. P.S. Your dog is ADORABLE! 🥰
I’m lucky to have raised beds 30’ from my kitchen. It’s so much fun throwing cheap seeds in the ground and seeing what comes up. I love it!
that explains about annette larkins. anyway, i've tried gardening, and this environment aint' made for it. (i'm in th sub tropics, but still, this environment is shit) bugs mess with everything and ruin it. the plants either get yellow leaves, or brown spots. tomatoes get blight. something is always wrong. it's very discouraging.
Do look into permaculture and planting stuff that works in your climate. If they can garden in the Sahel, it's possible to get stuff to stay alive where you are. But it may take some study and experimentation. The basics: work with your landscape to hold onto water, improve your soil in natural ways, and start by planting sturdy stuff.
I think the shirt is fine - it matches your eyes very nicely and isn't too loud at all.
lemongrass tip - if you cut off the 'root nub', you can plant that back in the soil and it will grow back! or you can put a whole lemongrass stalk in the dirt and wait for it to root.
That's my one wish for my forever home: a garden. At the moment, I have a little balcony garden which I love. I never miss an episode of Gardener's World. :) There is absolutely nothing that makes me happier than enjoying a garden, and gardening (aside from the dream of existing in a vegan world). :)
I am a vegan gardener and love to know where my food is literally coming from. Nothing can be better than preparing food you grew yourself. I would guess that carnivores gardeners are consuming way more veggies (and of better quality if they are organic) than carnivores non-gardeners, thus they are of better health? Sinclair also mentioned that plant that goes under stress due to it being attacked by pest is more beneficial for us. P.S. I envy your arugula bed! I can't make it grow in my garden
Perfect! I started gardening a year ago.. addicted to it now.
I have noticed mental and even spiritual effects of working in my garden. When I water, or deal with my compost or prune, my mind relaxes and I become kind of in a trance sometimes. It definitely makes me more relaxed and happy afterwards. I actually LOVE going thru my compost (to save the worms) and that leaves me in a very relaxed state! I've even gotten hits of intuition when I am doing garden work. I think I feel health benefits as well. I feel more alive afterwards. It's an interesting phenomenon.
Great video. I miss having my own yard...
One aspect of gardening that really helps the environment is composting. Your food waste would otherwise create methane in landfills. Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas compared to CO2. Bonus- animal free fertilizer for your garden! No B.S.
I've been composting for decades and gardening for almost two decades. I wasn't vegan when I started (I was vegetarian) and I bought a couple of yards of triple mix when I started. After becoming vegan I've avoided amending the soil with anything other than my own backyard compost. I've also stopped tilling, to avoid killingl the creatures in the soil. The only problems I'm having is that some of my plants don't grow as vigorously as before, and that some of my plants' leaves get chewed up by the little critters living in my garden. Do you have any tips for amending soil without BS, but with more than what my backyard composter produces?
I don't even "garden" per se, but I do enjoy harvesting random volunteer squash and cantaloupe sprouting out of my compost burial spots (leftovers/peels/seeds) maybe a couple of times a month.
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The nasturtium leaves in your garden are also very healthy. A while ago I got interested in seeds and found that there are hundreds of green leafy plants out there, which you couldn't buy because they don't stay fresh, so lots of health potential there. 💚
Fun how they use the word 'scheme' in England compared to the U.S.
Is that a japanese tea pot on that highboard in the background behind you? I have one too! Makes green tea into a whole ceremony. Sadly I have no garden but I think I should try growing some small greens and other smaller stuff indoors.
My full time job is gardening 😁 I’m growing microgreens, which I would argue, also significantly improve your life. Mic, your garden looks great and your shirt needs to STAY 🤌🏻 I love it. Sharing this video with all my gardening and gardeners-to-be friends 🤠🌱
Thanks for this, my friend. I will try to share this in one of our videos. 👍
I carry buckets of water for my plants, as part of my exercise program. Digging up purple sweet potatoes is hard work. They taste great! I'm 71.
Everyone can grow sprouts and microgreens - inside, even apartments! I grow inside and outside!
It's a great shirt Mike lol. And it complements your eyes and skin tone and has a nice contrast with your hair.
Great video thanks
Love your shirt! I love gardening too!
❤❤❤ Woohoo! Science on my favorite activity! Thank you Mic
Hunting does the same thing. Getting out and being one with nature. Living in the country and not in a congested city.
I watched your garden DIY video and enjoyed it. (I haven't yet made any raised beds, but I'm thinking about it 😄)
I like that shirt! The color is good on you, and the tiny print reads as a textured solid.
I didn't see the link to your gardening video. 😢
I love ground cherries. They are delicious.
Trust an old woman (63), your shirt is fab and brings out your eye colour 😊
lovely
Love Wild Mic. ❤
I didn't watch your gardening vids because I am envious. I have tiny tiny space and can't seem to get the indoor production working well enough to feed my body or my mind.
I like your shirt. It brings out the blue in your eyes.
Gardening is therapy.
LOVE your beautiful blue shirt, it looks terrific on you as well.
I want to buy a copy of that shirt
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Can't keep green things alive, lol. Also, I live in an apartment. But, a lot of places have community gardens these days. So, play in the dirt if that's your thing. ❤
I like that shirt. :)
Have you looked into red light therapy, basically getting outside in nature, makes sense that gardening would help prevent and heal dementia and other diseases.
I wonder if there are the same benefits when farming/market gardening. I’ve spent nights in the rain saving my lettuce from crane fly larvae and it was pretty stressful. Having fresh veggies in nowhere Alaska is amazing though.
The fresh quality of the food probably has something to do with it. Even organic produce is often not picked ripened and gassed.
Makes sense
I like the shirt. It goes well with your eyes
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My grandmother gardened her entire life and still got dementia.
In my country, people are advised to not eat the eggs from backyard chickens, because of PFAS in our soil. So do PFAS also end up in our home grown vegs? It's not clear. And it's also not clear how bad this is for our health. So gardening like our life depends on it?
Loved the video Mic! The benefit of increasing our vitamin D while in the garden is a big one for me! I have multiple sclerosis and keeping my D levels up helps me to love well with it.
vitamin d is only produces at sun elevation above 45 degrees and with no sunscreen on, and only on skin less used to sun exposure, upper legs, lower back and stomach places like that.
just a heads up for those who think vitamin d comes from any sun exposure anywhere on the body.
@@sudd3660 naked mid-day gardening it is! 😀
@@sudd3660naked mid-day gardening it is! 😃
@@sudd3660 afternoon gardening in the buff it is! 😉😃
I live on what used to be a small farm. Of course we have more gut biome variety, skin biome variety, and microbial variety in general; in the country you can pretty much find sh** all over. Even yesterday, after walking my dogs, I came home with a piece of bird crap stuck to my pants (and no idea of how it got there). I've had birds crap on my head. Although o be fair, being from Lisbon, I've had birds crapping on me in the city also...
I find it hard to believe that all this "biome variety" is a positive thing, though; I'm pretty convinced someday I'll die of some bird flu that chicken eaters release onto the world...
That said, preventing the grounds from having weeds up to my knees (ok, waist) has definitely improved my muscle tone...
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The fart propulsion 😆
Plenty of moisture for your garden if you live in Iowa. NW Iowa anyway.
I don't think your shirt is loud🤔
What do you feed your dog?
Great vid😊
I have a garden because I feel like I should. But I seem to be the only person in the world who doesn't enjoy it. I wonder if the benefits still count because I don't like anything about it. Outside is where the sun, the dirt, and the bugs are. BTW, I love the shirt.
You can garden at night if you want ... just plant some trees then. Or go for a Japanese style. Put in a pond for critters.
I love your wee dog 🥰 so cute !
I don’t have a garden or balcony 🥲
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Thank you for sharing. Two things here. The first is that animal blood, bone, and other
nasties are used as fertilizers for plants. THEY ARE NOT VEGAN and are loaded with
antibiotic and other residues. Veganic gardening works and there are many books
and articles about it. I am looking forward to haveing my own garden soon.
Second, here is an interesting video evaluating SALADino's reasons for quitting the
constipation diet he so passionately promoted. Cheers. ua-cam.com/video/aszfLn7VPRk/v-deo.html
beautiful outfit btw
Please suggest to your followers that they not use peat moss potting soil because of the destruction of peat environment.
“Dr.” Chaffee is at it again. His latest clip says children given one egg per day had an increase in IQ by 15 points . Interested in what you dig up on that.
Eating vegetables is good for you
Not that I'd want to say anything against gardening itself.
But, is it the tending to the plants?
Or is it just having a plot of land, a garden to relax in the first place. (something most people in urban environments can't have at all)
I suppose you could do a comparison with prisoners who only have access to a bare concrete prison yard? Apart from the light exercise, I'd guess it was more to do with the microbes in the soil. But rootinng in the earth is something really primal. And, dare I say it, "ancestral". There's are a lot of positive studies about the effect of green light, & tree cover.
@@jonahwhale9047 lol, you just need to compare to people living in urban environments, most don't have anything like a yard etc.
@@Fallenangel_85 I don't think it's about the sitting. You won't change your biome that way. It's certainly about the doing & contact with the soil, nature etc. Most cities have wild or derelict spaces, open for guerilla gardening etc. I live in one, & do so, e.g. NYC was famous for its. The idea of a prison yard was to test the theeory of outside exposure but also removing the nature element.
There are roof tops, vacant lots, river sides, park edges etc. In a number of cities in Europe there's a movement lifting paving stones & planting in borders, around street trees etc. "Forest bathing", as it's called in Japan which is pretty much one big conurbation, has been proven to affect gut microbiome too.
@@jonahwhale9047 Prison is just a terrible setting because the people there have all kinds of other issues related to being in prison.
But in big cities, most people don't have access to a private open outside space. Some may have a balcony or ofc public parks.
But it's easy to find people that don't see much of that.
Doing something outside in nature is probably the important thing, not necessarily the process of gardening itself.
@@Fallenangel_85 Nic provided papers & a rationale (biome), what's your explanation & evidence?
"I 💀 someone to get this" 🤣 I choked on my organically grown raspberries I harvested in the sun this morning for breakfast 😂 Couldn't get an allotment plot for that reason, put some raspberry canes in the tiny garden, apparently they love being ignored 🤷♀️ now, profit 🤑😂
Your garden is so beautiful! 💚💚💚
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"I think this is a corner piece" 🤣😂 killed me. 08:33
I know people that got sick of gardening because they were so stressed of it... the food is great, but if you have no time for it, its not really funny. The people dont even had time to meet friends, just work and gardening.
what a great excuse, now go live like a modern unhealthy city slug....