South Bruce Peninsular - The Happy Gardeners - Comments

You have to get IN to get OUT

garym — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 12:16:08 -0400

It seems to me the whole point of their research is that you have to actually get in to the mud; it's the interaction of the microbe with your immune system that causes the serotonin rush. The effects you're getting from just watching those girls are more likely from, ah, er, other hormones.

Some comments over on the Scotsman News are pondering if this is why our wives so love to stick exotic mud to their faces before bedtime, or why some folks will pay good money to sit in a tub of the stuff. Me, I keep trying to get May to get down and wrassle in the raised boxes, but she says I have to wait until after blackfly season. Which is probably prudent.

garym: ict evangelist - musician - whatever

mud

mxyzptlk — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 08:56:13 -0400

our neurochemistry starts bathing us in the happy-juice serotonin

maybe thats why i enjoy watching womens mud wrestling so much. the photo looks like it could have been taken at the woodstock festival in the 60s.

kltpzyxm

The Happy Gardeners

garym — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 00:43:14 -0400

Feeling a little blah and in need of a pick-me-up to tide you through? According to research published in the journal Neuroscience, Chris Lowry at Bristol U says you can flush your prozac because what you really need is just a good old-fashioned solid dose of gardening to get you back on your form!

I'm sure the Gardening Club knew it all along: Get dirty and get happy. Seems there's a microbial bug in that soil, by the name of Mycobaterium vaccae, found in dirt everywhere, and when we play in it, our neurochemistry starts bathing us in the happy-juice