Welcome to Nobody Told Me.

I'm Jan Black.

My daughter, Laura, is off today with a sore throat.

You know, most of us would love to find a drug with no harmful side effects that would

boost our health

and give us more energy while diminishing depression and anxiety.

That may sound like an impossible prescription, but it's not.

Our guest on this episode, Dr. Stephen Treziak, is the co-author of a new book,

which takes an in-depth look at how and why being a giving person is a secret superpower.

The book is called Wonder Drug, Seven Scientifically Proven Ways that serving others is the best

medicine for yourself. Dr. Thank you so much for joining us. Well, thank you so much for having me on

the show, Jan, and I wish all the best to Laura. I hope she feels better soon.

I hope so, too.

Tell us why you decided to write this book.

Well, it was really a, it was a, we were following up some earlier research.

We initially wrote a book a few years back called Compassionomics, where we curated all the

scientific evidence that compassion matters, not just in meaningful ways, but also in measurable

ways. And so measurable effects for patients and for patient care, but importantly, also for

those who care for patients or our health care providers, meaning that when we have deeper relationships by connecting more, not less, it actually can promote resilience and resistance

to burnout, which is about as common as the cold among health care workers. And I also want to

be clear that after two years or two years plus, really, of a pandemic, you don't have to be

a health care worker to feel burned out.

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