Dr. Stephen Trzeciak: …serving others is the best medicine for yourself
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🗓️ 21 June 2022
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
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 Trzeciak, is the coauthor 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.”
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Nobody Told Me. |
| 0:11.5 | I'm Jan Black. |
| 0:13.0 | My daughter, Laura, is off today with a sore throat. |
| 0:16.2 | You know, most of us would love to find a drug with no harmful side effects that would |
| 0:20.5 | boost our health |
| 0:21.3 | and give us more energy while diminishing depression and anxiety. |
| 0:25.3 | That may sound like an impossible prescription, but it's not. |
| 0:29.0 | Our guest on this episode, Dr. Stephen Treziak, is the co-author of a new book, |
| 0:33.7 | which takes an in-depth look at how and why being a giving person is a secret superpower. |
| 0:40.1 | The book is called Wonder Drug, Seven Scientifically Proven Ways that serving others is the best |
| 0:46.9 | medicine for yourself. Dr. Thank you so much for joining us. Well, thank you so much for having me on |
| 0:51.9 | the show, Jan, and I wish all the best to Laura. I hope she feels better soon. |
| 0:55.2 | I hope so, too. |
| 0:56.3 | Tell us why you decided to write this book. |
| 0:59.8 | Well, it was really a, it was a, we were following up some earlier research. |
| 1:06.2 | We initially wrote a book a few years back called Compassionomics, where we curated all the |
| 1:13.0 | 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 |
| 1:23.4 | 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 |
| 1:33.2 | to burnout, which is about as common as the cold among health care workers. And I also want to |
| 1:37.9 | be clear that after two years or two years plus, really, of a pandemic, you don't have to be |
| 1:42.6 | a health care worker to feel burned out. |
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