Badly behaved girl

Irreligious. Feminist. Child free by choice.

[Badly behaved girl @Ladeisdark]

Finally building my profitable business.
Making at least 2x what I already earn.
Learning how to invest properly.
My siblings achieving their academic and career goals.
🙏🏾

[story lenny tells @iwilsonnonny]

what do you think 2022 holds for you?

[Tomori @otomporo8701]

I'm Tomori. Shot by police and survived. They refuse to pay medical bills. IGP, CP Lagos, and PPROs are aware.

I may lose the use of my hand forever if I don't get reconstructive surgery. I can't afford it. It's terrifying, but I'm not giving up.

I'm begging you, please read, donate, retweet. Even $5 helps save my hand. 🙏

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[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.

[Nze @nzemmili]

That generation wore afros, rocked all sorts of fancy hairstyles, then grew up, went bald, and started hating young people with hair.

Coupled with their religious psychosis, we suffered at their hands.

[Lilyallly❤️🇬🇧 @lilyally98]

Xenophobia

[Nigerian American Helena Troy-She/They @AdaNore44]

I agree. It should be more

[˖ Ridhima 𓂀 ݁˖ @ridhima_z]

Girls, have you noticed that what many men consider a special date at a restaurant is just a regular lunch in female friendships?

[Shanna✨ @shannasparkleof]

Merci pour vos nombreux rappels sous ma dernière publication mon homme est très obéissant et craint Allah… Il a bien couvert sa awra Baraka Allahu fikoum Al hamdoulilah 🤲🏻❤️

[Mikirru @Mikirru03]

It’s always rape rape rape with y’all

[Asjad @notasjad]

This only received $23 since posting :'(

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

The wellness industry makes $6.8 trillion a year selling you the idea that healing looks like a latte and a journal. Antidepressant use has risen sharply in every major country that tracks it.

The most effective behavioral treatments for anxiety, trauma, and OCD share a core mechanism called extinction learning. Your brain can only unlearn a fear response by facing it in a controlled setting. Avoiding the fear keeps the circuit intact. Triggering it is how you change it.

Prolonged Exposure therapy for PTSD, ranked among the most effective treatments by the American Psychological Association, has patients revisit traumatic memories in detail, repeatedly, across weeks. The National Center for PTSD has documented that symptoms often stay elevated, or briefly get worse, in the early weeks of treatment before improvement arrives. The protocol is built around this.

James Pennebaker at UT Austin has studied expressive writing for 40 years. His research shows that journaling can improve immune function and psychological wellbeing. But the version that works has patients write about their worst memories, their darkest thoughts, the things they have never told anyone, for 20 minutes straight across four consecutive days. Participants often reported lower mood in the days right after early sessions. The improvement came later. The casual gratitude journaling common on wellness social media is a different practice, with a much thinner clinical evidence base.

For OCD, the gold standard treatment is Exposure and Response Prevention. A therapist deliberately triggers a patient's worst obsessive fears and blocks the compulsion that would relieve the anxiety. Anxiety climbs. The patient sits with it. Over weeks, the brain updates how it reads danger. It is one of the most documented treatment effects in psychiatry, and it works by temporarily making things harder.

Brain scans taken during therapy explain why. Both depression and anxiety involve a hyperactive amygdala, the brain's alarm system, and an underperforming prefrontal cortex, the part that regulates emotional responses. Effective therapy physically rewires this relationship. The brain builds new connections between these regions. That process is hard on the brain and takes months.

The WHO puts depression as one of the leading causes of disability worldwide, affecting more than 330 million people. That figure has not declined during the wellness industry's growth. Pennebaker's own framing of why expressive writing works: the brain builds a clear story around a chaotic memory, lowering the mental effort of keeping it buried. The active ingredient, across every evidence-based approach, is the willingness to make things temporarily harder.

[fuck @sorrymoom]

La romantización de la "salud mental" en redes nos está vendiendo la idea de que sanar es tomar café en tazas lindas y escribir en un diario, cuando en realidad "sanar" es un proceso asqueroso, violento, solitario dónde eres tú peleando con tu mente

[OLANNA (Kissing is FUNDAMENTAL to ROMANCE) @OlannaOli]

This is the only crime, that the crime scene is the victim’s body.

If someone robbed you at home, you can change houses. If they robbed you on the road, you can change routes. You get raped, you can’t leave your body, unless you die. You live in a crime scene till your death.

[Dr. Ish (they/them) @ishsulin]

absolutely wild how ppl are MAD ABOUT THIS 😭😭😭

[Sora 🏳️‍🌈💥 @thejadedangels]

First step to fixing this country is building some proper libraries in every state. Our biggest challenge is the olodo uprising and it’s not getting better if olodos keep rising.

[Kevwe @kevwe_od]

This is how white people narrate history. 😂

[Shiggs @blen_shiigs]

The day I treated a Prof of anesthesiology . She tried everything to avoid medical words , she kept referring to me as sir until I asked her where is the abdominal pain located , she said around the right iliac fossa . I just paused 😒

[cyn🌸 @cynugwudike]

it was a 7 year old girl

they found out because she was being hypersexual in school

[No filter Skin @NoFilterSkin]

Bought these avocados maybe 20 days ago....I let them ripen and then put them in a bowl of water and set them in the fridge. Supposedly, when you place them in water, this stops the ripping process. The cut avocado is 20 days old.

[Misheline Mutuzo @Lord_Mutuzo]

“To every girl who said “This is not how I want to live for the rest of my life” and walked away- girlhood is so proud of you”

-Thank you❤️

[Doctor @DipshikhaGhosh]

Men are smart. Men can read a room. Men can simply choose not to put themselves in vulnerable situations. This man should have protected himself by not walking around naked. He is giving wrong ideas to women. He is responsible for his own safety.
Men should:
- cover up (long sleeves, baggy clothes, nothing “tempting”)
- never leave the house after dark, alone
- not travel without a male chaperone, just in case
- avoid eye contact with women on the street
- text a friend their cab number, license plate, and live location
- keep a hand near the emergency button at all times
- not smile, not be “too friendly,” not give “mixed signals”
- not drink anything they didn’t pour themselves
- check the back seat before getting in any vehicle
- carry pepper spray, just in case a woman gets “the wrong idea”