461. Loneliness: Modern Society’s Silent Killer with Jeff Krasno

Commune with Jeff Krasno

Commune Media

Health & Fitness, Society & Culture

4.6 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Social connection is essential for our well-being. Drawing on the contrast between our ancestral hunter-gatherer lifestyle and our current culture, in today’s episode we delve into the physiological and psychological impacts of social isolation. Learn the twelve elements of a healthy social fitness regimen as a means to combat the modern epidemic of loneliness.

In this episode we cover:
00:01:57 - The Lifestyle of the Hunter-Gatherer
00:03:56 - Human Bipedalism
00:05:29 - Evolving Bigger Brains
00:08:30 - Communal Living
00:09:27 - Survival of the Fittest
00:10:31 - Individualism
00:11:30 - The Loneliness Project
00:12:30 - Social Isolation
00:13:09 - Health Risks of Loneliness
00:14:39 - Sociogenomics
00:16:19 - Addiction
00:18:40 - How Social Media Exacerbates Loneliness
00:21:00 - Solitude vs Loneliness
00:21:35 - Happiness
00:24:22 - 12 Elements of a Social Fitness Regimen
00:32:42 - Introverts, Extroverts, and Ambiverts

Learn more about Commune and check out all our health, nutrition, and functional medicine courses free for 14 days at onecommune.com/trial

This podcast is supported by:

Vivobarefoot
Vivobarefoot is giving feet the freedom to move as Mother Nature intended. The best piece of technology ever to be put into a shoe is the human foot. Get 15% off your first Vivobarefoot order at Vivobarefoot.com . Use the code VIVOCOMMUNE15 at check out. Reclaim your natural potential. The journey starts with your feet.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Welcome to the Commian podcast.
0:08.0	My name is Jeff Krasnow.
0:09.7	I often say that disease is an expected result of our adaptive mechanisms trying to simply cope with our lifestyle.
0:20.3	In short, our culture has hijacked our evolution.
0:24.6	And I'd like to underscore this notion by leveraging my great, great, great, great, great,
0:30.6	great, great, times 20 grandfather, who lived as a hunter-gatherer in 10,321 BC in the area of East Africa that we now call Kenya.
0:42.1	His name was Fege Ansarck, which is somewhat unimaginatively.
0:47.6	My name spelled backwards.
0:49.3	A Fedge's lifestyle and ecosystem mirrored those of hundreds of generations and across vast swaths of time,
0:58.0	human biology evolved in relationship to this environment. Now I have virtually the same exact
1:06.0	biology as FEDGE, but our cultural conditions could not be more different. Now, this change in culture has
1:14.2	created evolutionary mismatches. Our hard-wrought advantages have become disadvantageous. Now,
1:22.7	there are many examples of how culture has rendered the adaptive maladaptive.
1:28.9	And today, I explore the modern cultural artifact of loneliness.
1:34.7	It's knock on impacts, and I introduced the concept of social fitness as a means to combat
1:41.3	social isolation.
1:43.5	Okay, let's begin by traveling back 12,000 years or so and visit
1:48.8	the conditions in which our ancestors evolved. It was a nightly ritual for Fudge and his tribe to
1:55.8	gather around a crackling fire as the sun dipped and the air cooled.
2:01.9	On most days, resources could be gathered across four to six hours,
2:05.6	which left plenty of time to gather and eat and share the stories of the day.
2:11.8	Communal life provided camaraderie, but it was also essential for survival.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Commune Media, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Commune Media and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.