Latest / SuperLife with Darin Olien
Your Brain in the Wild: Why Nature Is Essential for Your Nervous System
What if spending time in nature isn't simply good for you, but something your brain is biologically designed to need?
In this solo episode, Darin explores the sensory neuroscience of nature and the growing research suggesting that our increasingly indoor lives may be fundamentally mismatched with the environments our brains and nervous systems evolved to experience. From walls and screens to fluorescent lights, traffic, right angles, and constant notifications, modern environments bombard us with sensory inputs our ancestors never encountered at this scale.
The numbers put that mismatch into…
The skinny
The skinny isn't ready yet — notes appear once the transcript is processed.