11 Get Your Hands Dirty
A plant-based lifestyle has benefits – gardening, we mean. According to a study from Chiba University in Japan, simply looking at flowers reduces blood pressure and heart rate, while lowering levels of oxyhaemoglobin in the brain’s prefrontal cortex, which induces relaxation. Better still, studies show that exposure to harmless mud bacteria called mycobacterium vaccae has an antidepressant effect.