London, Aug 27 (ANI): Mowing the lawn can help you beat stress,
a new study has suggested. Researchers have found that a
chemical released by freshly mowed grass can help people relax
and make them cheerful, thus slowing down the decline in mental
ability with age. Scientists claim the scent released from the
grass works directly on the brain, specially affecting the
emotional and memory parts called the amygdala and the
hippocampus. After seven years of rigorous research, scientists
now claim to have made a perfume, the “eau de mow” which “smells
like a freshly-cut lawn”, and helps relieve stress and enhance
memory. Dr Nick Lavidis, a neuroscientist at the University of
Queensland, Brisbane, developed the idea of the perfume, named
Serenascent, after he trekked a US forest twenty years ago. The
Telegraph quoted him as saying: “Three days in Yosemite National
Park felt like a three-month holiday. “I didn’t realise at the
time that it was the actual combination of feel-good chemicals
released by the pine trees