Loneliness is a huge topic of concern today. You see, loneliness isn't just a feeling, it's a health

risk. You can be married, employed, surrounded by people all day long, and still feel that quiet

sense of disconnection. Most of us shrug it off as if it's normal. It's not. Chronic loneliness does more than

dampen your mood. Research links it to higher risk of heart disease, weakened immunity, cognitive

decline, even a shorter lifespan. Some experts say the health impact of loneliness rivals smoking

15 cigarettes a day. So what's really happening? Why is loneliness so biologically powerful?

And why does modern life seem to make it worse, not better?

In my conversation with psychiatrist Dr. Edward Hallowell,

we'll explore what loneliness does to your brain and body,

and more importantly, what you can do to

break out of it. And that conversation begins right after this. Of the Regency era, you might

know it as the time when Bridgeton takes place, or it's the time when Jane Austen wrote her

books. The Regency era was also

an explosive time

of social change,

sex scandals,

and maybe the worst

king in British history.

Vulgar history's

new season is all about

the Regency era,

the balls,

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