VILLA SARGIANO to sleep immersed in contact with nature, unplug from technology and slow down the pace of life. Villa Sargiano is Tuscan country elegance, understated, unostentatious, set in a particularly rare habitat. A paradise 5 minutes from the centre of Arezzo. Sleeping and breathing at Villa Sargiano has a poetic Japanese name: Shinrin-Yoku in English Forest Bathingh Therapy (森林浴 in Italian "trarre giovamento dell'atmosfera della foresta" or "to benefit from the atmosphere of the forest" or "bathing in the forest"). VILLA SARGIANO relieves you of stress and promotes relaxation, with all your senses immersed in air and pure forest spring water at 23°C. Scientific studies show that people who sleep and breathe in a more natural environment with lots of trees have an increased immune function. At VILLA SARGIANO you can breathe deeply, drink well spring water at 23°C and enjoy numerous benefits. Scientific studies confirm: lower cortisol concentrations, lower heart rate and blood pressure, reduced stress and depression. Stimulation of creativity. Increased Natural Killer cells, able to recognise and fight viruses and cancer cells. Improved sleep, increased ability to concentrate, even in children with ADHD, accelerated recovery after surgery or illness. The British research team from the Norwich Medical School at the University of East Anglia conducted an in-depth statistical study on data from as many as 290 million people from several countries, including Spain, the USA, France and Japan. The researchers, co-ordinated by Professor Caoimhe Twohig-Bennett, collected information from 140 different studies, which confirmed the long-term positive result of breathing and sleeping a weekend surrounded by plants: reduced diastolic blood pressure, a lower heart rate, and better sleep quality. A reduced concentration of salivary cortisol, a physiological indicator of stress, was also found. Studies confirm that sleeping in contact with nature is a panacea against stress, illness, early mortality and premature birth.
05.01. 2021 The CNR (National Research Council) publishes a review of the book: "Terapia Forestale", published by Cnr Edizioni, the result of a year and a half finished in 2020, joint between the Cai, on the initiative of its Tuscan Scientific Committee, transposed and expanded by the Central Scientific Committee (Cai-Csc), and the Institute for BioEconomy of the National Research Council (Cnr-Ibe), with the scientific collaboration of Cerfit at Aou Careggi, which for the first time systematically collects and extends the state of scientific knowledge on Terapia Forestale. A discipline that originated in the Far East and has now spread all over the world, so much so that it is to all intents and purposes a complementary medicine available to the National Health Service. The title 'Forest Therapy', in its simplicity, emphasises the intent to fill, on the basis of scientific rigour and the multidisciplinary contributions of doctors, biologists, foresters, physicists, psychologists and other professionals, a gap temporarily occupied by widespread and growing initiatives that are not always based on objective criteria and verifiable standards. "We wanted to create a scientific reference framework of the evidence gathered worldwide during thirty years of research, and hundreds of scientific publications, on the direct effects of forest environments on the mental and physiological health of visitors, " says Federica Zabini of CNR-Ibe, editor of the work.
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