267: The connection between your relationships & longevity | Marta Zaraska, science journalist

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Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 9 December 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Marta Zaraska: “Just like the way we think about eating veggies and fruits, we should think about relationships as a health priority.” Zaraska, a science journalist and bestselling author, joins mbg co-CEO, Jason Wachob, to discuss the underrated ways social interactions impact your longevity, plus: *Why lonely people tend to get worse sleep* *The health benefits of living with a committed partner* *How your social interactions affect your gut microbiome* *Why we need to make empathy a habit* *The evolutionary reason you don’t want to get out of bed when you’re feeling sick* Enjoy this episode! Whether it's an article or podcast, we want to know what we can do to help here at mindbodygreen. Let us know at: podcast@mindbodygreen.com. And don't forget to check out Zaraska's book, Growing Young: How Friendship, Optimism and Kindness Can Help You Live to 100, which you can find at http://www.GrowingYoungTheBook.com. 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.
0:08.7	Marta Zaraska is a science journalist who's written about nutrition and psychology for the Washington Post,
0:14.3	Scientific American, the Atlantic, L.A. Times, among others. And her latest book, Growing Young,
0:21.4	how friendship, optimism, and kindness can help you live to 100,
0:26.0	it's quite simply one of my favorites of the year, so it is so great to talk with her today.
0:32.0	Marta, welcome.
0:35.0	Thank you so much for having me, Jason.
0:37.0	I am so excited to have you here,
0:39.0	your book Growing Young,
0:41.0	How Friendship, Optimism, and and kindness can help you live to 100 is a new favorite of mine. I really love the book so congratulations.
0:51.0	I'm so glad to hear it up.
0:53.0	So you have this incredible journey and there's a quote in the book which I love.
0:58.0	You quote, sit-ups and kale juice were not as important to health as I used to think."
1:04.0	So can you talk a little bit about your health journey?
1:08.5	You talk about fasting, keto, running, you tried everything,
1:12.0	but then you started digging into the science of
1:13.7	longevity and it was an eye-opening experience so walk us through that journey.
1:18.8	So I've been a journalist science journalist for many years now, and writing for the scientific
1:25.5	American, the Washington Post, New Discover, New Scientists Discover.
1:30.1	And so I was always in this world of nutrition and health and biological sciences and also at the same time in my private life I was always interested in how to live long and healthy, especially when I became a parent eight years ago, kind of I went into
1:46.4	overdrive of this healthy nutrition stuff. I really wanted to make sure that our family was
1:50.8	healthy, that my daughter was healthy, growing well obviously.
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