And for this segment, we bring in our favorite happiness contributors, Chris Libby, our section editor. Hello. And our science editor, Paula Phelps. How are you, Paula? Doing great. How about yourself? Oh, just fantastic. It's a live-happy radio. It'd be kind of weird if we were sad on the radio, so we'll try to live as happy as we can. What we do in this segment is the three of us gather in the studio here, and we bring

with us our favorite facts as they relate to positive psychology that we found in the last

week.

We share them and discuss them, and then Paula takes that information and puts it in a nice blog

that is available on live happy.com so you can further research it yourself.

So, without any further ado, in no particular order, let's start sharing our facts,

starting with my fact this week, which is that if you want to live longer,

dedicate some of that life to making the lives of others better.

In other words, volunteering can make you live longer.

Now, this is a chicken and the egg scenario because there's really no proof that if you go and work at the soup kitchen every week, that you're going to suddenly add five years to your life.

But they say that people who volunteer tend to be more fluent.

They tend to be kind of healthier anyway, but it's not necessarily that. It's the fact that you're getting out, you're volunteering, you're getting the social

aspects of it, and in those ways you can increase your life.

Yeah. The social thing is a big thing, because you're out there making positive connections with people.

You're increasing the oxytocin, which is the love hormone.

If I'm correct, Paula, right?

That's correct.

But yeah, and all that flows through you.

It makes you feel good and makes you – all those positive things in your life are just good for everything.

And really, I mean, getting out of your house is just generally a good thing to do unless you're going out to start fires.

But if you're going out to be with people and especially doing a good deed like that the people you work with you're

probably pretty like-minded with the people who you're there to help in general what's that

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