Weekly Roundup: Can Travel Slow Down the Brain’s Aging, Nature as a Prescription is Surprisingly Effective, Your Country Impacts your Brain Health, and Autonomy Boost Children and Teachers at School

This week a few topics related to aging as they sounded good to me — and my brain is aging so it is at least relevant to me — and surely to all of you subscribers and readers!

Can Travel Slow Down Aging?

This sounds almost too good to be true but is a serious, albeit only theoretical paper.

So what is it with travel and ageing?

This was a group of interdisciplinary researchers who looked at travel from the viewpoint of entropy. Entropy is the law of nature that states that everything moves to disorder — and from a biological perspective towards disintegration and eventually death.

Fangli Hu et al. of Edith Cowen University in Australia argue that travel has an ability to influence major biological systems in positive ways through multiple mechanisms. This includes exposure to new environments, new experiences, stress but also relaxing activities, and also pathogens.

This can all elevate stress responses which in turn elevates metabolic rates, and stimulating adaptive…