{"id":19132,"date":"2021-06-22T16:35:03","date_gmt":"2021-06-22T21:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepapergown.zocdoc.com\/?p=19132"},"modified":"2023-03-20T13:48:38","modified_gmt":"2023-03-20T18:48:38","slug":"the-nature-pill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zocdoc.com\/blog\/advice\/the-nature-pill\/","title":{"rendered":"An Rx for Nature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Earlier this month, Dr. Robert Zarr, a pediatrician in Washington, DC, met with a young patient who\u2019d been spending most of his time in front of screens. The\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">10-year-old boy had settled into a sedentary lifestyle when school went online during the pandemic. He could go days without leaving his house and, Zarr determined, he really needed to lose some weight.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During the checkup, Zarr discovered his patient absolutely loved riding his bike. So, he wrote him a prescription to cycle to and around a park near his house for at least 45 minutes, three times a week.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While we might associate prescriptions with pills, a growing number of healthcare providers, including primary care physicians, psychiatric nurse practitioners and cardiologists, are pulling out their Rx pads to scribble down regimens for outdoor exercise, not medication. Nature prescriptions are part of a larger movement called <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/31713144\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">social prescribing.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The idea is to treat mental and physical chronic conditions such as anxiety, depression and obesity through simple, accessible activities, like a walk in the park or a bike ride through the woods. Zarr always includes four things in his prescriptions: the recommended activity, place, cadence and time frame. <span style=\"color: #000000;\">Sometimes social interactions are recommended too;<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0nature prescriptions may differ slightly based on who\u2019s writing them.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Additionally, large nature prescription programs have emerged to impose structure on the movement. Prescription Trails, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outsideonline.com\/2393660\/science-newest-miracle-drug-free\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the first such program<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the US, was founded in Albuquerque in 2006 to encourage patients with chronic illnesses to get outside and move. In 2017, Zarr founded his own prescription program called Park Rx America.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Although each program is unique, most offer maps of outdoor spaces in a given geographic area, digital platforms for doctors and patients to administer and fill prescriptions, and a way for patients to sign up for structured outdoor activities. In the US, there are now at least <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC7344564\/\">100 nature-prescription programs<\/a>\u00a0in 34 states. But, currently, there aren\u2019t any\u00a0standardized protocols for prescribing nature or shared database where different programs log prescriptions. So information on the practice is still fairly limited.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIt doesn\u2019t have to be an all-or-nothing situation, where they need to plan a big getaway to get into nature. They can sit outside their back door, and watch the birds and leaves move around for a few minutes.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Why \u201cprescribe\u201d nature in the first place?\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Because, well, the great outdoors are a boon to your health and well-being, according to just about every measure.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For years, the Japanese have cultivated the art and benefits of <i>Shinrin-yoku<\/i>, or forest bathing. And in recent years, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outsideonline.com\/2393660\/science-newest-miracle-drug-free\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">research<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> has shown that outdoor time can lead to lower stress levels and increased amounts of physical activity \u2014 two health outcomes important in combatting common chronic illnesses.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nature\u2019s positive mental impact is also extremely well-supported. One <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pnas.org\/content\/112\/28\/8567?lipi=urn:li:page:d_flagship3_pulse_read;q6FaKiagSnyXOvLXjnPjHA==\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2015 study<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> found that nature walks could lower someone&#8217;s risk of engaging in harmful behaviors like rumination, as well as developing mental-health disorders like depression. Another <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.3758\/s13423-018-1539-1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">found<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that merely listening to crickets chirping, without even being in nature, could enhance focus on complex tasks.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Studies have similarly demonstrated nature\u2019s physiological effects. A 2019 study linked self-reported \u201cgood health\u201d with at least <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41598-019-44097-3\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">120 minutes<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of green-space time per week; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC4571181\/\">another found<\/a> that children\u2019s BMIs decreased when they spent time outdoors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not as though doctors didn&#8217;t recommend exercise to patients before nature prescriptions came along. Still, Zarr and other proponents of the practice believe it has advantages over a doctor merely telling someone to go for a jog. For one thing, patients feel more accountable for their lifestyle choices when they get instructions on exactly how<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to get outside and sweat, versus general directives to be healthier. Zarr hopes that his and similar programs can help Americans control the spread of obesity and diabetes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The mental health community has embraced nature prescribing too. <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cFrom an evolutionary perspective, our brains are really adapted to being in nature,\u201d says Amy Lajiness, a therapist based in La Jolla, California. \u201cThat is our home.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div>Lajiness sometimes meets clients on the beach for \u201cecotherapy\u201d sessions, which are designed to help people relax if they feel nervous about therapy. Outside of these sessions, Lajiness uses a template she found online to write clients \u201cfun\u201d prescriptions to go outside. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t have to be an all-or-nothing situation, where they need to plan a big getaway to get into nature,\u201d she says. \u201cThey can sit outside their back door, and watch the birds and leaves move around for a few minutes. That\u2019s enough to form a connection with it.\u201d<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>COVID lockdowns illuminated the power of nature in a way we never could have imagined.<\/div>\n<p>While nature prescriptions are generally growing in popularity, there <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC7344564\/\">isn&#8217;t much research<\/a> on the best way to design the process for providers or health systems, in order to account for practical constraints like time. With doctors&#8217; appointments averaging about <a href=\"https:\/\/elemental.medium.com\/why-your-doctor-appointment-is-so-short-ec2b8d4d61ea\">13 to 16 minutes long<\/a>, can clinicians feasibly develop detailed nature prescription during a visit? Experts need to figure that out.<\/p>\n<p>Importantly, we also don&#8217;t yet know how well these prescriptions work for the conditions they&#8217;re supposed to treat.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC7344564\/\">One recent review<\/a> looked at 11 different studies, plus other types of papers, charting the effectiveness of nature prescriptions in preventing everything from stress to obesity. The review concluded that research findings were &#8220;mixed,&#8221; and that the literature is still &#8220;too sparse&#8221; to offer persuasive evidence of efficacy.<\/p>\n<p>We likely won&#8217;t have more data for a few years. Dr. Zarr, for instance, is currently in the second year of a five-year study designed to see how well park prescriptions can treat obesity in teenagers.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nevertheless, COVID-19 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">lockdowns illuminated the power of nature in a way we never could have imagined, says Diana Allen, chief of the National Park Service\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/subjects\/healthandsafety\/health-benefits-of-parks.htm\">Healthy Parks Healthy People<\/a> programming. In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC7688424\/\">study of nine countries<\/a> under lockdown, researchers found contact with nature reduced the likelihood of participants developing depression and anxiety. This was true even when participants stared through a window at \u201cblue-green space,\u201d meaning any area with greenery or water, or both.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fittingly, the National Park Service has its own prescription program, ParkRx,\u00a0and this year, NPS is celebrating a 100-year-partnership with the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">United States Public Health Service<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">through <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/subjects\/healthandsafety\/power-of-parks-for-health.htm\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe Power of Parks for Health,\u201d<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> a campaign about the intersection of nature and health. \u201c<\/span>This is a growing movement,\u201d Allen says. \u201cPeople are understanding the importance of getting outdoors when we were forced to be indoors.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h1 class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\">Ready to book a doctor&#8217;s appointment? 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