Linda Keyes
Board-certified emergency physician in Boulder, Colorado; adjunct professor at University of Colorado, past president of the Wilderness Medical Society, and vice president of the International Society of Mountain Medicine.
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Sep 7, 2026
Linda KeyesGUEST
I came to this topic because I was trying to understand why I loved wilderness and mountain medicine and why it was such a popular thing, what drew people to do this.
Linda KeyesGUEST
And just a little bit of research, I learned that being outside is really good for us cognitively and physically.
Linda KeyesGUEST
And then I gave a little talk at ASAP about why wilderness medicine is good for us.
Linda KeyesGUEST
And then a few months later, Adrian gave this incredible talk at the Wilderness Medical Society meeting on the neuroscience of why we get so much out of being in nature.
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Adrienne TarenGUEST
But it is something kind of measurable that you can do for yourself to support your own kind of physiologic recovery in the