Ch-ch-ch-chia!
Posted on 08/11/2014 2:42:20 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
Prozac may not be the only way to get rid of your serious blues. Soil microbes have been found to have similar effects on the brain and are without side effects and chemical dependency potentials. Learn how to harness the natural antidepressant in soil and make yourself happier and healthier. Read on to see how dirt makes you happy.
Natural remedies have been around for untold centuries. These natural remedies included cures for almost any physical ailment as well as mental and emotional afflictions. Ancient healers may not have known why something worked but simply that it did. Modern scientists have unraveled the why of many medicinal plants and practices but only recently are they finding remedies that were previously unknown and, yet, still a part of the natural life cycle. Soil microbes and human health now have a positive link which has been studied and found to be verifiable. Soil Microbes and Human Health
Did you know that there’s a natural antidepressant in soil? It’s true. Mycobacterium vaccae is the substance under study and has, indeed, been found to mirror the effect on neurons that drugs like Prozac provide. The bacterium is found in soil and may stimulate serotonin production, which makes you relaxed and happier. Studies were conducted on cancer patients and they reported a better quality of life and less stress.
Serotonin has been linked to such problems as depression, anxiety, obsessive compulsive disorder and bipolar problems. The bacterium appears to be a natural antidepressant in soil and has no adverse health effects. These antidepressant microbes in soil may be as easy to use as just playing in the dirt.
Most avid gardeners will tell you that their landscape is their “happy place” and the actual physical act of gardening is a stress reducer and mood lifter. The fact that there is some science behind it adds additional credibility to these garden addicts’ claims. The presence of a soil bacteria antidepressant is not a surprise to many of us who have experienced the phenomenon ourselves. Backing it up with science is fascinating, but not shocking, to the happy gardener.
Mycrobacterium antidepressant microbes in soil are also being investigated for improving cognitive function, Crohn’s disease and even rheumatoid arthritis. How Dirt Makes You Happy
Antidepressant microbes in soil cause cytokine levels to rise, which results in the production of higher levels of serotonin. The bacterium was tested both by injection and ingestion on rats and the results were increased cognitive ability, lower stress and better concentration to tasks than a control group.
Gardeners inhale the bacteria, have topical contact with it and get it into their bloodstreams when there is a cut or other pathway for infection. The natural effects of the soil bacteria antidepressant can be felt for up to 3 weeks if the experiments with rats are any indication. So get out and play in the dirt and improve your mood and your life.
Ch-ch-ch-chia!
happiest man ever
Cool! :)
I have GOT to see that movie!
Pigpen begs to differ! :)
Mycobacterium vaccae is in the same genus as Mycobacterium tuberculosis (that causes tuberculosis) and Mycobacterium leprae (that causes leprosy).
However, M. vaccae is not pathogenic. But it may be close enough to stimulate the immune system to act against the others.
Importantly, both tuberculosis and leprosy are very slow diseases, relatively speaking, reproducing only about once a day, unlike other bacteria that can typically reproduce about each half hour. This is why it can take drugs that treat them half a year or more to have a positive effect.
It didn’t work for Robin Williams, he was a very dirty man
“Eat dirt!”
No longer an insult ...
There was a show on PBS back in the 80’s or early 90’s.
It was about communal living, get back to the soil, that kind of stuff.
There was a collective farm of sorts in Virginia, I think. They had some interesting habits raised all (or most) of there own food, raw unpasteurized goat or cows milk, whatever.
But each week they would have a special salad - once a week, they would make a salad and sprinkle dirt on it. Well, not dirt exactly, just garden soil.
Results?? They NEVER got sick. EVER!
That’s referred to in the vernacular as “hog heaven”!
Wow, diane, It does!
Great thread! Back to Eden!
Aside from tetanus, anthrax, botulism, gas gangrene, camplobacter, and quite a few fungal diseases, no problem.
and all these back to nature types should work a few years in a primitive environment to see how stupid their claims are.
A farm in Wisconsin is primitive enough for me, though I, too, am rarely sick. I’ve spent most of my life in the dirt, either with the Army or in my garden.
Works for me. :)
Gives new meaning to the term “face plant”.
This isn’t related to getting ploughed though, another old remedy. Thanks Diana in Wisconsin.
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