Few feelings can top getting into a bed with fresh sheets and laying your weary head down on the cool side of the pillow, but are we getting bedtime all wrong? There was a time it wasn’t so comfy, back when we were living in the great outdoors rather than tucked away in houses, and while the security of a warm bed is a privilege, science suggests that there are some benefits to snoozing outside. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content.

A 2018 review became the first meta-analysis to quantify the impact of what they termed “greenspace exposure”. It sifted through five online databases leading up to January 2017 to look at the health outcomes of exposure to the great outdoors and found that “green prescriptions” could have subst

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