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Playing through the greenery and litter of a mini forest's undergrowth for just one month may be enough to change a child's immune system, according to an experiment in Finland.
"We also found that the intestinal microbiota of children who received greenery was similar to the intestinal microbiota of children visiting the forest every day,"has shown early exposure to green space is somehow linked to a well-functioning immune system, but it's still not entirely clear whether that relationship is causal or not.
The notion that an environment rich in living things impacts on our immunity is known as the 'biodiversity hypothesis'.
Over the proceeding 28 days, kids in these last four daycares were given time to play in their new backyard five times a week. Their results largely matched the second group of kids at daycares who had outings for daily nature time.
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