Is It Bad to Stay Inside For an Entire Day? Here's how a lazy day spent indoors actually affects your health.

health.com ^ | March 06, 2017 | Roshini Rajapaksa, MD

[daniel1212]

One day inside probably won’t hugely affect your health—but it’s not great to constantly stay cooped up from morning until dark. The biggest issue is that entering hibernation mode means you don’t get any exposure to natural light. Sunlight tends to improve your mood, and it helps your body produce vitamin D, which has been shown to help regulate the immune system, reduce inflammation in the body, and more. Sunlight also helps keep your internal body clock on schedule; your circadian rhythm plays a major part in regulating your appetite, sleep schedule, and energy levels...

Also, a study out of University of Glasgow in Scotland found that people who walked, ran, or biked in nature had a lower risk of poor mental health than people who exercised at the gym or at home.

[daniel1212]

going outside?

Sorry I missed your reply earlier.

That’s where you get that sun cancer, bee stings, dust up your nose, foxtail burrs in your socks, dog bites, snake bite, moose bite, etc. Can’t have a big ol’ branch fall out of a tree and onto your head if you stay in doors.

True, if rare, while if you are serious with your false dichotomy, outside is where you get fresh air, sunshine, the beauty of nature, freedom to explore thousands of miles, etc.

Besides, humans are meant to be indoors. That’s why we’re born indoors.

It is not an either/or dilimma. Humans are meant to stay indoors. That’s why we need sunshine and gardens and livestock and are able to run.

You don’t see pregnant women running outside to drop their newborn in the dirt, do you?

You do see studies of people who do not get out being less healthy.

why you want us out in the dirt?

Sometimes, as I was today tilling the soil in the sun. Go visit the garden thread.