Source: Mark Hyman, MD
Your Relationships Affect Your Health #shorts
Jun 15, 2023 · 1m 13s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5qE_dy5gtQ
the quality of your relationships will determine the quality of your life on pretty much every level I'm not saying you don't need to eat healthy and exercise and sleep well but you know if you look at the longitudinal studies it's people who have good relationships who live long prosper in the fullest sense of that word I think that's true I think it's something I learned as
I was exploring the research around longevity and went to visit the blue zones were a tremendous sense of connection belonging Community you know Okinawa for example they have little groups that form as kids where they put people in little groups where they have four or five people who have their back throughout their whole life and go through the entire Journey with them and last night I
was on my men's group which was basically a group of guys who've known each other for 40 years since college and we just gather every week for an hour and a half on zoom and wherever we are drop in not everybody makes it every time but it's an amazing feeling to have that sense of connection and and belonging and I know and Richard Davidson on your
uh happiness program that you created you said you know being lonely and isolated is a vigorous factor for death than obesity and sometimes I've heard people say it's equivalent to smoking two packs a day loneliness is probably one of the biggest killer so in a way social isolation is a huge issue
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