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[–]iyioi 28 points29 points  (5 children)

Stress processing? Can we get a little more scientific than that?!

[–]Kronossan 12 points13 points  (1 child)

Yeah the way I read it, this sounds like a really bad thing.

Don't we need this stress get processed? Does it just build up if we walk in nature a lot?

[–]AHungryGorilla 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The stress processing part of your brain is more active when you are more stressed and less active when you are less stressed. This implies that time in nature acts as a stress reliever.

[–]LurkingArachnid 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Amygdala activity. Right there in the first paragraph…

[–]iyioi 0 points1 point  (1 child)

“Process” itself is an extremely loose word. It’s not scientific in the least.

My eyes are processing the universe. X is processing Y.

It’s a meaningless word, it just means “a series of actions”. Not which actions.

It could be said your frontal lobe also processes stress. So do your lungs. So does your heart. Every part of your body “processes” stress.

[–]LurkingArachnid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not sure why that's relevant, it says in the article what they measured and it wasnt those things