Bloomsbury publish Kathy Willis's GOOD NATURE

I have spent many years being inspired by Professor Kathy Willis's unstoppable energy in working for the good of biology and nature, so I'm happy that readers can now discover that inspiration for themselves in Good Nature: The New Science of How Nature Improves Our Health, just published in the UK by Bloomsbury.

Publication kicked off with serialisation in the Daily Mail and a great New Scientist interview.

I was happy to see Tim Adams mention the 'thoughtful' New Scientist interview in his Observer column this weekend.

There are lots of press, appearances and podcasts to come, but here for a start is a link to Kathy's appearance on the Better Known podcast, which asks guests about six things they love that should be better known.

I've heard so many people say they make immediate changes to their lives after reading Kathy's book. I know this to be true because I have myself. The Better Known podcast mentions one of the things that I now do:

Buy a diffuser and diffuse the scents of cypress trees in your home or office. Why? Because clinical experiments and field trials are showing that when we do so, not only are stress hormones reduced, but also it can trigger a significant increase of natural killer cells in our blood. These are the cells that attack cancerous cells and viruses, and ones that we really want in our blood to enhance our resilience to these non-communicable diseases that currently account for over 70% of deaths globally. (Just as an aside – a lot of the smells currently sold in supermarkets for diffusers do not have any known clinical health effects – I therefore buy via the internet Japanese hinoki oil and diffuse this – along with pine oil, which again has many anti-inflammatory health benefits). 

Here's the Daily Mail serialisation for those without a subscription.

Good Nature will be published in France this month by Le Seuil, in the US by Pegasus Books in December, with foreign editions coming up in Czech (Host), Dutch (Balans), German (Berlin Verlag), Hungarian (Libri), Italian (Aboca), Japanese (NHK), Korean (Gimm-Young), Lithuanian (Baltos Lankos), Polish (Wydawnictwo Filia), Simplified Chinese (China Translation and Publishing House), and Spanish (Salamandra).

I was recently sent the German cover, which I really love: