Holidays can help to improve health: Medical study

According to the study, being in an environment that stimulates curiosity could turbo-charge the immune system, quoted the Daily Mail. For the study, the researchers took mice which were given a two-week stay in a large cage packed with toys and the exciting environment appeared to boost their white blood cells, which fight off infections. “This effect is remarkable because we haven’t given them any drugs, all we’ve done is change their housing conditions,” said Fulvio D’Acquisto, Professor at Queen Mary University, London. “You could say that we’ve just put them in their equivalent of a holiday resort for two weeks and let them enjoy their new surroundings,” D’Acquisto added. White blood cells are key to auto-immune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis and multiple sclerosis. The researcher suggested that prescribing a holiday could help the sick recover more quickly.