{"id":2255,"date":"2025-03-14T11:13:29","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T11:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/14\/watching-david-attenboroughs-nature-documentaries-soothes-pain\/"},"modified":"2025-03-14T11:13:30","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T11:13:30","slug":"watching-david-attenboroughs-nature-documentaries-soothes-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/14\/watching-david-attenboroughs-nature-documentaries-soothes-pain\/","title":{"rendered":"Watching David Attenborough&#039;s nature documentaries soothes pain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-03-14 11:13:29<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>Watching David Attenborough documentaries eases pain.<BR><br \/>\nMRI scans have shown that looking at nature videos reduced activity in the area of the brain that manages how a person feels discomfort.<BR><br \/>\nA study revealed that volunteers sensed less pain from small electric shocks when looking at images of the natural world than if they were shown pictures of a city or office.<BR><br \/>\nThe experts say that nature&#8217;s pain-relieving effects were half as powerful as paracetamol and believe that more research into the subject could help to develop treatments.<BR><br \/>\nMax Steininger, a PhD student at Vienna University, said that people have previously reported feeling less pain when watching nature but the reasons behind it were unclear.<BR><br \/>\nHe said: &#8220;Our study is the first to provide evidence from brain scans that just isn&#8217;t a placebo effect &#8211; driven by people&#8217;s beliefs and expectations that nature is good for them.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;Instead, the brain is reacting less to information about where the pain is coming from and how intense it feels.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-03-14 11:13:29 Watching David Attenborough documentaries eases pain. MRI scans have shown that looking at nature videos reduced activity in the area of the brain that manages how a person&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2256,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2257,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2255\/revisions\/2257"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}