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Houseplants are great for decoration and cute Instagram pictures - plus they make for pretty chill roommates. As if that wasn’t enough, there is actually some evidence that houseplants can also be good for your mental health.
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Houseplants are great for decoration and cute Instagram pictures - plus they make for pretty chill roommates. As if that wasn’t enough, there is actually some evidence that houseplants can also be good for your mental health.
Hosted by: Hank Green
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SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at scishowtangents.org
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AAdam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, الخليفي سلطان, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters
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Sources:
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4610617
cdc.gov/tobacco/campaign/tips/diseases/depression-anxiety.html
journals.ashs.org/horttech/abstract/journals/horttech/5/2/article-p137.xml
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4419447
journals.ashs.org/hortsci/abstract/journals/hortsci/51/10/article-p1308.xml
sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/near-infrared-spectroscopy
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25074565
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25453523
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4320784
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4377915
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1420326X13481372
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0013916513499584
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15535806
liebertpub.com/doi/pdf/10.1089/acm.2009.0075
journals.ashs.org/horttech/view/journals/horttech/18/4/article-p563.xml
journals.ashs.org/hortsci/view/journals/hortsci/44/1/article-p102.xml
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22489806
sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0272494409000413
sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0272494410001027
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/001391659803000301
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10937404.2016.1196155
sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0272494495900012
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15501093
