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<p dir="auto"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/29/soil-sandpit-children-dirty-biodiversity-finnish-nurseries-research-microbes-bacteria-aoe" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow ugc">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/29/soil-sandpit-children-dirty-biodiversity-finnish-nurseries-research-microbes-bacteria-aoe</a></p>
<p dir="auto">Finland study focused on "microbiome" or microbe-exposure benefits to being outside, playing in dirt.</p>
<p dir="auto">I'd suspect that getting slightly more sunlight could help too. Anyway, lack of outdoors was problem for lots of people in covid lockdown. Not me. I got into woods &amp; fields, unmasked &amp; often. But some people stayed at home, depressed &amp; unhealthy.</p>
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<p dir="auto">It makes sense to me.  <img src="https://community.gaytor.rent/assets/plugins/nodebb-plugin-emoji/emoji/apple/1f642.png?v=24806df837f" class="not-responsive emoji emoji-apple emoji--slightly_smiling_face" style="height:23px;width:auto;vertical-align:middle" title=":slightly_smiling_face:" alt="🙂" /></p>
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