Beach Experience and Negative Ions

Walking along the beach or on the rocks, swimming or board riding, many people love to be at the beach feeling good.

There are those people who believe that negative ions help to alleviate depression, relieve stress, and boost our daytime energy. It is thought that when they reach our bloodstream a chemical reaction occurs that increases levels of the mood chemical, serotonin.

Again there are those experts who will say that it is all in the mind. However there is some science behind how negative ions work on our health and wellbeing. Ions are molecules that have gained or lost an electrical charge. They are created in nature when air molecules break apart due to sunlight, radiation, moving air and water.

The feel-good experience, sailing along the water, walking along the beach, in the mountains or under a waterfall, could just be the power of negative ions. Odorless, tasteless, and invisible these negative ions are molecules that we inhale in abundance. The euphoria surrounding these wondrous places, away from the normal pressures of menial life, the fresh air of the mountains and the beach could be just that, or some say, these splendid places of nature contains tens of thousands of negative ions.

'The action of the pounding surf creates negative air ions. It can also be seen immediately after a thunderstorm, when people report lightened moods,' says ion researcher Michael Terman, PhD, of Columbia University in New York.

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