AnimaMoto

Primum non nocere

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[AnimaMoto @AnimaMoto1]

the beauty of transience
the transience of beauty

[tern @1goodtern]

You think that a virus that killed millions upon millions of people *did not* increase disability levels?
What are you on?

[MAH @Med58ll]

Van Dissel: Mijn schuld… Jaren later is te laat.

Als de risico’s bekend waren en er desondanks bewust anders is gehandeld, dan verdienen de betrokkenen niet alleen rekenschap af te leggen, maar ook aansprakelijkheid en passende juridische gevolgen.
https://t.co/YpomkSxpFG

[Kinderen met LongCovid @KinderenLC]

De uitspraken van Karoly Illy maken duidelijk hoe hardnekkig het beeld is dat kinderen nauwelijks ziek werden van corona.

Long covid vertelt een ander verhaal.

👇
https://t.co/pSH26gvbUI

[AnimaMoto @AnimaMoto1]

🙁 video wordt door X geblokkeerd...zegt wel wat...?!?
https://t.co/riRvBDi9nt

[AnimaMoto @AnimaMoto1]

Geen ontkomen aan. Van Kooten en de Bie zijn ongewild dé inspiratiebron van deze tijd...🙁
https://t.co/FCecB6YxKy...

[DiEM25 @DiEM_25]

This heat is not only a climate emergency, it is class war. The rich burn the planet, then buy air conditioning, private pools and second homes while workers are left in overheated flats, unsafe jobs, failed public services and burning cities. Climate Action Now!

[Jessica Jansen @Jessica_Jans4]

@Med58ll Als 4 weken schoolsluiting tot depressie leidt, dan moet je ook stoppen met de jaarlijkse schoolvakantie. De schoolsluitingen zijn het probleem niet. Dat de sport ook gesloten was, en dat er mensen dood gingen, dat was het probleem.

[LeoDaVinciWave @LeoDaVinciWave]

Why we need to plant more trees in our towns.

[Irena Buzarewicz @IrenaBuzarewicz]

The weather forecast for this week

[Nieuwsuur @Nieuwsuur]

Nederland had het coronavirus moeten indammen in plaats van rond laten gaan, zegt hoogleraar Gezondheidsrecht Jaap Sijmons. “Met het nastreven van groepsimmuniteit verzaak je je wettelijke taak, namelijk het bestrijden van de uitbraak.” #Nieuwsuur

[Bert Mulder @BertMulderCWZ]

Onbegrijpelijk dat tijdens het verhoor van Karoly Illy de schade door long covid bij kinderen niet eens wordt genoemd.

Terwijl long covid gevallen bij kinderen toch direct samenhangen met het Nederlandse beleid om onder kinderen het virus zo veel mogelijk rond te laten gaan.

[Millie Marconi @MillieMarconnni]

A Japanese immunologist spent 20 years proving that the chemicals trees release into the air walk into your bloodstream, hunt down your stress hormones, and arm your immune system in ways no therapist or pharmaceutical has ever matched, and most of the data has been sitting in Japanese medical journals for two decades waiting to be translated.

His name is Qing Li.

He is a clinical professor at Nippon Medical School in Tokyo and the president of the Japanese Society of Forest Medicine. The Japanese government has been funding his research since 2004, and the body of work he has produced is the reason forest bathing is now an officially prescribed clinical therapy in Japan and Korea.

The story actually starts in 1982, when the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries coined the term shinrin-yoku to describe the practice of slow, mindful walking in a forest. They did it for a practical reason.

Japan was urbanizing fast, stress-related illness was climbing, and the country had thousands of square kilometers of forest sitting unused. The idea was to give people a reason to walk into the trees... They had no idea what was actually happening to the human body during those walks until Qing Li ran the first proper experiment in 2005.

He took twelve healthy adult men on a three-day, two-night trip to a forest park. They walked for a few hours each day. Nothing strenuous. No prescribed routes or breathing exercises. They simply walked slowly through the trees, breathing the air, looking at the forest.

Li drew blood and urine samples before the trip, on the second day, on the third day, on day seven after returning home, and again on day thirty.

The numbers that came back from the lab were not what anyone expected.

The activity of a specific type of immune cell called the natural killer cell, which is the cell your body uses to hunt down cancer cells and virus-infected cells before they can spread, had jumped by roughly 50 percent during the forest trip. The actual number of natural killer cells circulating in the bloodstream had increased significantly.

Three different anti-cancer proteins that those cells produce, called perforin, granzymes, and granulysin, had all risen sharply. And the effect did not disappear when the men went home. The immune boost was still measurable on day seven and was still partially present on day thirty.

Two hours a day in a forest had upgraded the immune system for a full month.

Li ran the same experiment with women a year later and found nearly identical results. Then he ran it with a control group who took a three-day trip through an urban area with the same amount of walking, the same hotel quality, and the same diet.

The urban group showed no measurable change in natural killer cell activity at all. The forest was doing the work, not the vacation.

The mechanism turned out to be a class of airborne molecules called phytoncides. Trees produce these compounds to defend themselves against insects, bacteria, and fungi. Pine, cedar, oak, and cypress trees release them in particularly large amounts, especially in warmer weather and after rainfall.

When you walk through a forest, you are inhaling those molecules into your lungs and absorbing them through your skin, and once inside your body they appear to directly stimulate the production and activity of the very immune cells Li was measuring in his lab.

Roughly 50 percent of the health benefit of a forest walk, according to Li's data, comes from the chemistry of the air itself. The other half comes from what the forest is doing to your nervous system.

This is where it stops being only about the immune system and starts being about stress.

A separate Japanese research team measured cortisol, the body's main stress hormone, in 84 participants across 35 different forest sites. They drew samples before and after a 30-minute walk in each forest and compared them to control walks in matched urban environments. The cortisol levels of the people who walked in the forest were lower than the cortisol levels of the people who walked in the city by a significant margin. Their heart rates were lower. Their blood pressure was lower.

The activity of their parasympathetic nervous system, which is the part responsible for rest and recovery, had gone up. The activity of their sympathetic nervous system, which is the part that drives fight or flight, had gone down.

Then a researcher at the University of Michigan named MaryCarol Hunter ran the cleanest version of this experiment ever done. She recruited participants from a city and told them to take a nature pill three times a week for eight weeks.

They were free to choose the time, the place, and the duration of the nature experience, as long as it was outside, in daylight, and free of phones, conversations, and aerobic exercise. They sent her saliva samples before and after each session so she could measure cortisol changes accurately and rule out the normal daily drop in stress hormones that happens to everyone.

The result was that participants experienced a 21.3 percent drop in cortisol per hour spent in nature, with the biggest payoff happening between minutes 20 and 30 of the walk.

After that, the cortisol kept dropping, but more slowly. The threshold dose for measurable stress relief was just 20 minutes outside in something that looked and felt like nature.

What none of this means is that nature is a substitute for therapy or for medication when someone genuinely needs them. Therapy treats different things than a walk does, and Li himself has been careful in interviews to call forest bathing a complementary intervention rather than a replacement for clinical care.

But what the research has settled is that the human body has a physiological response to being among trees that operates on the same biological systems modern medicine is trying to reach with drugs and clinical protocols, and that response is fast, measurable, and free.

The strangest part of Li's work is the implication he keeps repeating in interviews. The average person now spends more than 90 percent of their life indoors. Their cortisol stays elevated. Their natural killer cells stay sluggish.

Their parasympathetic nervous system rarely gets a chance to take over. The system that was tuned by millions of years of life under a canopy of trees is being asked to run permanently inside a box made of drywall and screens.

Your body has not forgotten what it is supposed to do in a forest. It is waiting for you to walk into one.

[Peter Neehus @PeeNee2]

Terugkijktip 📺
Een onthutsende reportage over hoe de overheid met burgers omgaat.
"Doodmoe van de Q-koorts"
De zaak sleept al ruim 10 jaar. En het einde is nog niet in zicht.
#PAIS #Qkoorts
https://t.co/PZ6nPS7nNy
https://t.co/XYJq82GdFH

[AnimaMoto @AnimaMoto1]

@WillemHazenberg Laagfrequent resonerend gedreun krijg je er heel makkelijk gratis bij als een warmtepomp niet heel zorgvuldig geplaatst wordt. En omdat er alleen normen bestaan voor het ventilatorgeruis buiten, hebben buren geen poot om op te staan. geluid zit immers tussen je oren....

[AnimaMoto @AnimaMoto1]

@DefensieMin @USAmbNATO @Defensie @usembthehague @usambnl @USNATO @NLatNATO ...en u bent...?

[Rebekka Timmer @RebekkaTimmer]

Ironisch genoeg is iedereen en z’n moeder uitgenodigd om zijn verhaal te doen bij de openbare verhoren van de Parlementaire Enquêtecommissie Corona.

Behálve degene die het parlement in 2021-2022 opschudde als enige serieuze oppositie tegen de corona-aanpak: Sylvana Simons.

Zij verweet het kabinet een anti-wetenschappelijke aanpak die stuurde op de mythe van ‘groepsimmuniteit’, waardoor er buitengewoon veel doden vielen en er steeds zwaardere maatregelen nodig bleken om het virus in te dammen.

“Gecontroleerd laten rondgaan” van het virus bleek geen houdbare strategie. Steeds bleek dat de initiële aanpak te weinig deed om de crisis te voorkomen. Wetenschappelijke aanpakken werden niet gevolgd (mondkapjes waren onzin, maar werden kort daarna verplicht). Absurd veel mensen raakten besmet. En de rest zat onnodig lang thuis opgesloten met alle schade van dien.

Dat alles had voorkomen kunnen worden als het kabinet zich had laten leiden door de geldende wetenschappelijke inzichten en zich had gericht op indammen in plaats van ‘groepsimmuniteit’, een mythe die vriend en vijand nu allemaal belachelijk vinden.

Dáár moet de parlementaire enquête over gaan.

Maar helaas. De coalitiepartijen van tóen hebben de enquêtecommissie opgevuld met hun eigen Kamerleden. Het is maar de vraag of er überhaupt enige serieuze conclusie uit deze commissie komt.

Ik hoop dat de Enquêtecommissie van @Daandekort92 in ieder geval alsnog een uitnodiging aan Simons stuurt en aan andere critici, zoals die van Geen Dor Hout. En ik hoop dat de serieuze vragen ook gaan worden gesteld.

[Ralf Wittenbrink @RWittenbrink]

Eurostat: Die Anzahl gesunder Lebensjahre bei Geburt ist in Schweden von 73,3 Jahre im Jahr 2019 auf 66,2 Jahre im Jahr 2023 gesunken (Vergleich: Deutschland 66,3 -> 62,5 Jahre, EU 64,6 -> 63,1 Jahre).

https://t.co/8zLm2Ksq5M

[karinkaatj @Karinkaatj]

@LidwienGerrits1 @raouljdegroot Mijn vriendin werkt in een verpleeghuis. De eerste maanden van corona is meer dan de helft van haar cliënten overleden. Ik zie haar nog huilend voor mijn deur staan. Geen mondkapjes, geen bescherming. Zij kreeg covid. Doodziek geweest. Wat ze wel kreeg was applaus. 🫣

[AnimaMoto @AnimaMoto1]

@notmobydick @BertdeHoogh1 @Chr1stenJohn 🎯

[Thijs @notmobydick]

@BertdeHoogh1 @Chr1stenJohn De keus die NL maakte was om niet af te wachten tot vaccins er waren maar de bevolking *door infectie* immuniteit op te laten bouwen. Dat is een breuk met basale volksgezondheidsprincipes, en dát is waar Jaap van Dissel verantwoording over zou moeten afleggen.