Nature: Connecting is the Cure

Consider This:  Connecting with nature could cure cancer.

New research, just published in JAMA, points to the cancer resisting qualities of a gene called “p53.” Humans have one p53. Elephants have 20 copies of p53. And guess what? Elephants very, very rarely get cancer. 

Just imagine if the kids who grew up to study elephants in the wild never went outside! No p53 discovery. Our future is out there.

unplugging and connecting at Camp Tanadoona

7.5 hours a day in front of an electronic screen-- that's the average for American kids. Botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer reminds us that the average 3-year-old can identify way more than 100 corporate logos. Guess how many plants most kids can identify? 10. 

The world is a big, complicated beautiful place. With less than 5% of the worlds' oceans explored, we can only begin to imagine what the next generation will discover. And their discoveries might just cure what ails us. 

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