The Healing Code of Nature by Clemens G. Arvay

Author:Clemens G. Arvay
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sounds True

THIS CHAPTER IN A NUTSHELL

Our search for explanations about the healing effects of nature has led us to a hormone from the adrenal cortex called dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA). DHEA is an endogenous heart-protecting substance. The level of this steroid hormone in human blood decreases over the course of life, which is one of the numerous biological reasons for the aging process. Medical studies have shown that spending time in nature, but not time spent in the city, leads to a significant increase in DHEA production.

Clinical studies have shown that DHEA counteracts numerous cardiovascular diseases. It protects us, among other things, from dangerous coronary heart disease in which the heart muscle is not sufficiently supplied with blood because of loss of elasticity in the blood vessels. Doctors have additionally discovered the therapeutic efficacy of DHEA in the treatment of mental illness and Alzheimer’s disease.

Our nervous system of “rest and digest” acts as a kind of organic antenna and entryway for the healing code of nature, which can reach and affect our organ cells this way. The nervous system of rest, the parasympathetic nervous system (PSNS), is a large network of conductors and neurons that run from our cranium and spinal cord into almost all parts of our body and is connected with our organs and cells. The counterpart of the nervous system of rest is the nervous system of excitement, or the sympathetic nervous system (SNS). The two together are like yin and yang in forming the overall nervous system and are supposed to remain balanced. In stressful situations, the system of excitement is activated. Bodily functions such as digestion, immune defense, and so on slow down. Our heart rate, blood pressure, and blood glucose levels rise. Social problems, existential angst, and pressure at work, as well as the absence of sensory stimuli from nature, can lead to the dominance of the SNS (excitement) over the PSNS (rest). Through complicated regulatory circuits, this can lead to common lifestyle diseases, including cancer. Recent studies have shown that overactivation of the nervous system of excitement in humans and other primates can cause serious organic damage, brain damage, and death.

Due to evolution, nature is full of healing codes that activate the counterpart of the nervous system of excitement, the nervous system of rest. This counteracts physical and mental lifestyle diseases and activates the mode of cellular healing.

Through nature and wilderness experiences, we also gain distance from societal, professional, and financial problems and can regenerate during this time away.

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