Nature as medicine.
Lowering of blood sugar, increase in concentration and attention, mental relaxation and counteract insomnia, rebalancing of mood, stimulation of the psychoneuroendocrine and immune system. These are some of the benefits of forest medicine, full immersion in nature guided by specialized personnel.
Guspini, in the Medio Campidano, at the forefront at national level. Its "third landscape", a project conceived by Daniela Ducato - green innovator and Knight of the Republic for environmental merits -, the first specialist in forestry medicine in Sardinia, is the first to be validated as a medical prevention resource. In the field, a scientific research team with the municipality of Guspini already certified pesticide free, the Italian Association of Forest Medicine, in collaboration with Confcommercio Green, private individuals, professional associations, innovative realities and universities.
"In Guspini, for the first time in Italy," explains doctor Paolo Zavarella, president and founder of the Italian Association of Forest Medicine, "we have begun the qualification of urban areas characterized by the Third Landscape, as places suitable for prevention and health promotion: the correct immersion is able to increase by 50%, in a stable and sustained way over time, the number of NK (Natural Killer) cells which are the lymphocytes or white blood cells present in the human and animal immune system".
In the ground - explains Ducato - there are health facilities and an open-air pharmacy. "And in the restitution of soil and not in its consumption lies our biological future. In the third landscape, human absence often generates an unexpected refuge for the restoration and conservation of biodiversity. The soil, with its wild plants, is a privileged element of the ecological balance and at the same time promotes human health also through the release of volatile molecules. For an effective immersion, it is important to have the guidance of specialized forest medicine facilitators."
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