After The Breakthrough

I believe in the certainty of the goodness of the future

[After The Breakthrough @Trades2Trader]

@LeelaAheer This is exactly the kind of statement made by someone without a connection to nature or the land.

These areas are precious and we must do our utmost to preserve them.

[After The Breakthrough @Trades2Trader]

@HumzaYousaf @RupertLowe10 Yeah, it's definitely the Muslims who are the victims here.

Just forget about all those English girls... 🙄

[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.

[After The Breakthrough @Trades2Trader]

@PaulCha94025901 @grok Burning and schooling you was getting old anyway.

We both know the only reason you don’t use Grok (or facts) is because they don’t support your position.

No politician or party deserves blind support — only ideas that actually serve the people. Yours don’t.

[After The Breakthrough @Trades2Trader]

@PaulCha94025901 @grok Does the truth hurt too much?

Telling me to "think for myself" is pretty rich coming from a schill.

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@PaulCha94025901 @grok @grok Has socialism, other than in Nazi Germany, ever improved the quality of life for people, or has the opposite been true?

[After The Breakthrough @Trades2Trader]

@ToujoursJacques @TheRealKeean Lake Louise is absolute jewel.
Which makes the situation even worse.

[After The Breakthrough @Trades2Trader]

Trump is spot on — the UN isn't "helping" anyone, it's weaponizing migration to overwhelm the West... including Canada with our own tax dollars!

While Canada pours hundreds of millions into IOM and UN migration programs every year, our borders are strained, housing is in crisis, and communities are changing overnight.

This isn't compassion — it's a coordinated assault on Western sovereignty. Time for Canada to DEFUND the UN, exit their globalist schemes, secure our borders, and put Canada First. No more funding the invasion of our own country. Trump called it out — when will Ottawa listen?

[QUANTUM GUARD ™️ @QuantumGuard17]

🚨 HOLY CRAP! President Trump just went BERSERK at the United Nations for funding mass migration and thus destroying western civilization!

"UNACCEPTABLE. The UN is supposed to STOP invasions, not create and finance them!"

"The United Nations is funding an assault on Western countries and their borders!"

"Not only is the UN not solving the problems it should, too often it's actually creating new problems for us to solve! The best example is the number one political issue of our time, the crisis of uncontrolled migration. It's uncontrolled. Your countries are being RUINED."

"In 2024, the U.N. budgeted $372 million in cash assistance to support an estimated 624,000 migrants journeying into the United States. Think of that. The U.N. is supporting people that are illegally coming into the United States, and then we have to get them out!"

"The U.N. also provided food, shelter, transportation, and debit cards to illegal aliens. Can you believe that? On the way to infiltrate our southern border. Millions of people came through that southern border. Just a year ago, millions and millions of people were pouring in, 25 million altogether over the four years of the incompetent Biden administration."

I AM LOVING THIS!

[After The Breakthrough @Trades2Trader]

@CapatanEl4662 I am currently employed by good, honest, hardworking Irishmen.
The Irish are a blessing in this world.

Ireland is for the Irish and I stand with them.

[After The Breakthrough @Trades2Trader]

You keep screaming ‘removed from reality’ and ‘tiny minority with eternal grievances’ while you’re the one in full denial.

Production is real. Alberta’s net billions sent to Ottawa are real. Fentanyl bodies, tent cities, choked infrastructure, and failing healthcare are real. Your ‘fantasy’ dismissal is cope because facing it means admitting the federal thumb you defend is crushing the province you live in.

Your bio quotes Mill to call conservatives stupid — yet here you are, emotionally melting down to defend policies that deliver exactly the decline you pretend doesn’t exist.

Shame isn’t in wanting better for Alberta. It’s in shilling for the status quo while the evidence piles up around you.
Get a grip, not a life.

[After The Breakthrough @Trades2Trader]

@wealthmoose @Grok Please explain to everyone how this will benefit Brookfield

[After The Breakthrough @Trades2Trader]

@WayneMathison Carney is paving the way for direct wealth transfers from Canada to Brookfield Property/Asset Management

[After The Breakthrough @Trades2Trader]

@PaulCha94025901 @Grok who is the winner of this debate?

[After The Breakthrough @Trades2Trader]

@RealSteve55 Yup.
HUGE difference between blue and white collar boomers.

[After The Breakthrough @Trades2Trader]

@ryangerritsen Let's all start calling him Gree.

Gary is too refined for this neanderthal.

[After The Breakthrough @Trades2Trader]

@PaulCha94025901 @junonewscom Socialist values at work

https://t.co/2zQxdnoACe

[Curious Explorer @aerogel_wizard]

🚨Nightmare in Belfast Northern Ireland

The horrific video shows a Black African migrant stabbing a White British man in the face and neck multiple times while he lies on the street.

The knifeman screams in an unknown foreign language as he attempts to behead the victim.

Bystanders were slow to react but eventually started hitting and kicking the terrorist in the head until police arrived.

The victim was rushed to hospital with life-threatening injuries and remains in critical condition.

UK Police (PSNI) have refused to release the attacker’s identity, nationality, or immigration status despite the graphic footage going viral.

This has triggered massive outrage over Two-Tier Policing, mass migration failures, and Keir Starmer’s Labour government, which is now pushing Digital IDs and anti-free speech online censorship.

Earlier today Labour got hit with 4 separate Community Notes for trying to use their under-16 social media ban to install spyware on British phones.

Massive protests are being planned across Ireland, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and England.

The UK was already a powder keg after Henry Nowak… this Belfast video is the fuse.

[After The Breakthrough @Trades2Trader]

@KirkLubimov Smart move, if you have interest in Brookefield Property Management.

Disgusting to everyone else.

[After The Breakthrough @Trades2Trader]

@iltalehti_fi @Dansazo
What have you got to say for your yourself and your city if you allow this to happen?

What kind of man are you?

[After The Breakthrough @Trades2Trader]

@IslamInvasion Why does it seem like all the world's problems originated from the middle east?

[After The Breakthrough @Trades2Trader]

@ryangerritsen Trudeau needs to be tried and executed for treason.

Knowingly keeping safe the identities of 11 MPs who are traitorous...