Source: Mark Hyman, MD
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May 2, 2023 · 1m 31s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9iAfCsqWFw
one of the biggest factors in terms of your risk for premature death is loneliness being lonely and socially isolated is equivalent to smoking two packs of cigarettes a day that's really serious so biological aging as a result of all of our stressors and and our psychological stressors and relational stressors our lack of connection is really important a lack of physical touch lack of intimacy plays a
huge role not lack of being understood and seen and witnessed there's a huge role in in so much of the ailments that we're suffering not just Mental Illness but also physical illness and our longevity so this whole idea of sociogenomics I actually came up with this term years ago when I was in Haiti and then it became part of medical literature not not because of me
because other people also started climbing onto it and it was this idea that our social relationships and our social networks may be more important than our genetic Connections in determining our health and our health outcomes our lifestyle certainly influences our genes but so does our social connections our relationships influence our gene expression and it's really not an abstract Theory or notion it literally is biology our
thoughts our beliefs our relationships all drive real changes that we can measure in our gene expression that can join inflammation stress hormones so for example you're having a conversation with somebody if it's a loving connected intimate conversation your anti-inflammatory genes will turn on your healing and repair genes will turn on whereas if you're in a conflictual relationship or a conversation with somebody you're gonna have your
stress hormones increase you're gonna have inflammation increase you're going to increase all sorts of bad things in your body that are produced by your body that cause harm
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