{"id":115,"date":"2007-04-03T08:49:42","date_gmt":"2007-04-03T08:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/?p=115"},"modified":"2007-04-03T08:49:42","modified_gmt":"2007-04-03T08:49:42","slug":"dirt-could-help-fight-depression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/dirt-could-help-fight-depression\/","title":{"rendered":"Dirt could help fight depression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Adding to the theme that doing kid stuff is just plain good for you, &#8220;the Scotsman&#8221;:<a href=\"http:\/\/news.scotsman.com\/scitech.cfm?id=506592007\">http:\/\/news.scotsman.com\/scitech.cfm?id=506592007<\/a> reported a study released yesterday that suggests that a common soil bacteria plays a role in fighting depression.  Apparently the bacteria, Mycobacterium vaccae, has been shown to release seratonin in mice, a chemical linked to lower incidence of depression.  Just like sleeping in and taking naps, science is suggesting that another of life&#8217;s pleasures commonly rejected by Purell-pumping soccer moms (getting dirty) is not only okay, but downright good for you.  I love science.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/alex\/dirtyface.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nLinks to the &#8220;Scotsman article&#8221;:<a href=\"http:\/\/news.scotsman.com\/scitech.cfm?id=506592007\">http:\/\/news.scotsman.com\/scitech.cfm?id=506592007<\/a> and two past Duenos posts about the positive benefit of &#8220;sleeping in&#8221;:<a href=\"http:\/\/duenos.net\/article\/30\/sleeping-in-is-good-for-you\">http:\/\/duenos.net\/article\/30\/sleeping-in-is-good-for-you<\/a> and &#8220;taking naps&#8221;:<a href=\"http:\/\/duenos.net\/article\/36\">http:\/\/duenos.net\/article\/36<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adding to the theme that doing kid stuff is just plain good for you, &#8220;the Scotsman&#8221;:<a href=\"http:\/\/news.scotsman.com\/scitech.cfm?id=506592007\">http:\/\/news.scotsman.com\/scitech.cfm?id=506592007<\/a> reported a study released yesterday that suggests that a common soil bacteria plays a role in fighting depression. Apparently the bacteria, Mycobacterium vaccae, has been shown to release seratonin in mice, a chemical linked to lower incidence of depression. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[169],"class_list":["post-115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-original-duenos","tag-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}