198: How friendship affects your immune system | Lydia Denworth

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🗓️ 16 March 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Lydia Denworth: "Friendship is as important as diet and exercise for your health. Even more important on some levels." Denworth, a science journalist and author of the book Friendship, joins co-CEO, Jason Wachob, to discuss why you should maintain friendships even in a time of social distancing, plus: *How friends affect your immune system* *How to become a better friend* *How many hours it takes to make a best friend* *The three components you need in every friendship* *How to distance yourself from toxic relationships* Enjoy this episode, and don't forget to subscribe on iTunes, Spotify, or your preferred platform! Comments: [email protected] Sponsorship inquiries: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the My Buddy Green podcast. I'm Jason Walkab, founder and co-ceeo of My Buddy Green and your host.
0:07.0	Today we're diving into all things friends with the best-selling author of Friendship, Lydia Dunworth.
0:16.0	We're going to talk about the health benefits of friends, what it means to be a quality friend,
0:20.4	how many friends you need, and how to maintain social connections in the age of social distancing due to coronavirus
0:27.2	Not to mention kids friendship and adolescents and what goes on in the developing brain. We all have friends, we all need friends, and we're going to go deep on friends today.
0:37.0	Lydia, welcome, so great to have you here.
0:40.0	It's great to be here, thank you.
0:41.0	Well, congrats on the book friendship and I can't help but think
0:46.1	about friendship in 2020 in the context of coronavirus and what that means.
0:53.6	We must start there.
0:55.0	So what does it mean?
0:57.4	Well, you know, the whole premise of the book
1:00.2	and the new science of friendship is about how important friendship and
1:04.7	social connection is for our health and we're going to talk about that in a little bit
1:08.3	and it is critical but so what I think is really important in this moment of
1:12.2	coronavirus is we're talking about social distancing and we do need to do that.
1:17.0	That's correct. But what we can do is we don't need to lose sight of the importance of friends. In fact, a
1:25.6	willingness to help each other and show up in times of need is really one of the
1:29.7	fundamental characteristics of a good friendship.
1:32.7	And so what we need to do is think a little more creatively
1:35.0	and think a little harder about how to help and how to interact.
1:39.1	So showing up on Skype, Face Time, all good.
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