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Humanity is undergoing an unprecedented shift from a largely natural, outdoor life to existence within built, urban environments - largely in front of screens. Our new environment is drastically different from our surroundings for 99% of human history.
As a result, humans are increasingly disconnected from nature. The impact of this fundamental change in lifestyle is not entirely clear, but illness and all-cause mortality has been linked to time spent indoors.
NatureQuant has synthesized multiple nature quantification data-sources through a machine-learning process to deliver a “NatureScore” that maximizes the health benefits of nature exposure. Discover your score.
Exposing the benefits of access to nature.
As seen to the right, NatureQuant’s optimized NatureScore® technology has proven to powerfully predict longevity and the reduction of poor mental and physical health outcomes. In short, to live a longer and healthier life, it is helpful to find a high NatureScore.
To learn more about the relationship between your environment and your health visit the EPA's Eco-Health Relationship Browser.
Note: NatureScore measurements derived from 29,296 census tracts and the 500 largest U.S. cities(*).
Effect size represents the standardized mean difference between upper and lower quintiles divided by the standard deviation.
(a) Source: U.S. Small-area Life Expectancy Estimates Project (USALEEP): Life Expectancy Estimates File, National Center for Health Statistics. 2010-2017. (b) Source: 500 Cities Project Data, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 2017. (c) Source: Multiple Cause of Death Data, National Vital Statistics System, National Center for Health Statistics. Years of Collection: 2015-2017.The enhanced accessibility of quantified and optimized nature exposure has many applications:
NatureQuant can enhance AVM accuracy to provide buyers and sellers with better home value estimates through unique and intelligent environmental data.
NatureQuant can partner with leading real estate technology and information service providers to deliver relevant NatureScore data for homes and commercial properties.
NatureQuant can provide individuals the ability to track their personal nature exposure and select nature rich environments for their home and recreation.
NatureQuant can help healthcare professionals and insurance providers prescribe and track nature exposure for both prevention and treatment.
Given the strong associations NatureScore has shown with longevity and real estate prices, financial analysts could use NatureScore to improve their forecasting models (pension plan liability / life and health insurance models / real estate portfolio pricing / etc.).
NatureQuant can partner with other fitness, health, and mental therapy apps as well as serve businesses seeking to generally improve the health and productivity of their employees.
NatureQuant can assist governments in city planning, natural resource management, and public health promotion.
NatureQuant is partnering with leading medical, economic, and epidemiological researchers.
Research and News articles about the Nature movement.
"NatureQuant - For encouraging better health through more outdoors time. Exposure to natural elements is proven to be useful for prevention and as treatment of many serious diseases. NatureQuant’s NatureDose mobile app monitors users’ time outdoors. It then uses that data to provide them with a “prescription” to increase their time in nature and improve their mental and physical health.""
“When you’re outdoors and you’re reflecting and connecting with nature, it gives you a sense of wonder. It deepens your connection to the greater universe. When you put down the phone and go outside, all your metrics get better. We’ve seen the trackers. Even your immune system gets better,” says Hanley.
“We want to use tools like big data and machine learning to better understand where we need to invest with green spaces—and how we can motivate people to get off their screens and into nature.”
- Chris Minson
Chief Science Officer, NatureQuant
“If you are falling away from nature, you are almost certainly lowering your well-being and increasing your unhappiness.”
“This week, the company released NatureDose, an app that tracks people’s time indoors and outdoors as they go about their daily routines. The app can map the types of nature a person passes, whether a lake or tree-lined city street, through phone sensors including GPS and accelerometers.”
“The way a leafy promenade or a burbling brook tugs gently at our senses seems to restore our perennially depleted capacity to focus; it also lowers stress, boosts mood, and even enhances performance on cognitive tests.”
“If nature can serve as a medicine, then what’s the right dose? Tech and wellness platform NatureQuant, which recently integrated with exercise tracking service Strava, is on a mission to find out.”
“There's an increasing amount of evidence that time in nature as opposed to time in an indoor environment is beneficial," said Donald Rakow, associate professor at Cornell University's School of Integrative Plant Science in Ithaca, New York, and one of the 2020 study's authors.”
“Lower risk of diabetes, reduced symptoms of ADHD. Proximity to to trees is associated with a ridiculously broad range of health benefits. I wish we had pills that were this good for health.”
“This report summarizes the key findings of the systematic reviews, briefly looks at the relevant WHO tools and strategies, and reflects on future needs for research and action.”
“NatureQuant has devised a tool that scores locations—down to the residential address—from “Nature Deficient” to “Nature Rich” based on surrounding natural elements that correlate with good health.”
“On a more topical note, a recent analysis by Oregon-based tech start-up NatureQuant, which uses satellite and aerial imagery to quantify greenspace, found that U.S. counties with more greenspace saw slower spread of COVID-19, even when population density was the same.”
“There's a growing body of evidence that the practice [forest bathing] can help boost immunity and mood and help reduce stress.”
“…researchers found that women in greener areas had a 41% lower death rate for kidney disease, a 34% lower death rate for respiratory disease and a 13% lower death rate for cancer than those living in areas with less greenery.”
“There's a growing body of evidence that the practice [forest bathing] can help boost immunity and mood and help reduce stress.”
“We are starting to think about nature not just as a place to recreate, but also as a social determinant of health.”
“The studies “point in one direction: Nature is not only nice to have, but it’s a have-to-have for physical health and cognitive function.”
“Less concrete, more green.”
“Parks and greenery turn out to be not just something that brightens our lives but turns out to be really functional. It helps us be our better selves.”
“There are now sixty-two certified forest-therapy bases in Japan, all of which have been proved to have particular healthful properties, and between 2.5 and 5 million people now walk the forest trails every year.”
“Nature experiences led to reduced stress, easier recovery from illness, better physical well-being in elderly people, and behavioral changes that improve mood and general well-being.”
“Spending just 20 minutes connecting with nature can help lower stress hormone levels.”
“The greatest payoff, in terms of efficiently lowering levels of the stress hormone cortisol, you should spend 20 to 30 minutes sitting or walking in a place that provides you with a sense of nature.”
“If you take an urban adult into a forest, within 15 minutes, you see improvements in cortisol, blood pressure, heart rate. But more convincing to me is the fact that people who live in green areas live longer.”
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