Blue Spaces - How Spending Time Near Water can Boost your Mental Health
Summary
Hosts Kat and Helen explore the mental health benefits of blue spaces, such as oceans and rivers, with expert Matt White. They discuss how water environments restore attention and reduce pain more effectively than green spaces, supported by large-scale global studies. The episode highlights that these benefits are particularly significant for lower-income communities and recommends spending at least two hours a week near water to improve well-being.
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