Dr. Stephen Trzeciak: …serving others is the best medicine for yourself

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🗓️ 13 June 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Wouldn’t it be great to find a drug with no harmful side effects that would boost your health and give you more energy while diminishing depression and anxiety? That may sound like an impossible prescription, but it’s not! Our guest, Dr. Stephen Trzeciak, is the co-author of a 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: 7 Scientifically Proven Ways that Serving Others is the Best Medicine for Yourself”.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Nobody Told Me.
0:11.5	I'm Jan Black. My daughter, Laura, is off today with a sore throat.
0:16.1	You know, most of us would love to find a drug with no harmful side effects that would boost our health
0:21.2	and give us more energy while diminishing depression and anxiety. That may sound like an
0:26.4	impossible prescription, but it's not. Our guest on this episode, Dr. Stephen Treziak, is the co-author
0:32.6	of a new book which takes an in-depth look at how and why being a giving person is a secret superpower.
0:40.0	The book is called Wonder Drug, Seven Scientifically Proven Ways, that serving others is the best
0:46.8	medicine for yourself. Dr. Thank you so much for joining us. Well, thank you so much for having
0:51.6	me on the show, Jan, and I wish all the best to Laura. I hope she feels better soon.
0:55.1	I hope so, too.
0:56.3	Tell us why you decided to write this book.
0:59.7	Well, it was really a, it was a, we were following up some earlier research.
1:06.1	We initially wrote a book a few years back called Compassionomics, where we curated all the
1:12.9	scientific evidence that compassion matters, not just in meaningful ways, but also in measurable
1:18.1	ways. And so measurable effects for patients and for patient care, but importantly, also for those
1:23.5	who care for patients or our health care providers, meaning that when we have deeper relationships
1:28.1	by connecting more, not less, it actually can promote resilience and resistance to burnout, which is
1:34.4	about as common as the cold among health care workers. And I also want to be clear that after two
1:38.9	years or two years plus, really, of a pandemic, you don't have to be a health care worker to feel
1:43.9	burned out. Well, a few years back, I was going through burnout myself. That was really, of a pandemic, you don't have to be a health care worker to feel burned out.
1:44.8	Well, a few years back, I was going through burnout myself.
1:47.9	That was where the science really met the personal for me.
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