The 5 Friend Theory: Uncover The Type You're Missing & Unlock Your Dream Friendships
The Liz Moody Podcast
Liz Moody
4.9 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 1 June 2026
⏱️ 36 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Even though I have friends, I still feel really lonely sometimes, and I know that's a big thing |
| 0:03.9 | that you guys struggle with as well. You'll write to me and you'll tell me how lonely you feel, |
| 0:08.3 | but that you're not sure why or what to do about it. So I dove into the research around |
| 0:14.2 | friendships and loneliness. And it turns out that there are five specific types of friends |
| 0:19.0 | that we all need. And if you are missing |
| 0:21.0 | even one of these friends, your brain is literally wired to feel lonely no matter how many |
| 0:27.0 | friends that you might have. So today, we are going to go through all of the five friend types |
| 0:32.0 | and we're going to get into exactly how to make the friends that you might be missing. |
| 0:35.7 | Welcome to the Liz Moody podcast where we share |
| 0:37.7 | real solutions that fit into your actual life to the trickiest problems so that you can feel |
| 0:42.5 | as good as possible every single day. I'm your host, Liz, and I've been a journalist for two |
| 0:46.5 | decades. I love diving into the research. I love the actionable, pragmatic tips you can apply |
| 0:51.6 | to your life. So my very first question was, what are we actually |
| 0:55.6 | getting from our friendships? There was a meta-analysis of 148 studies looking at over 300,000 |
| 1:02.4 | people, and it showed that we are 50% less likely to die if we have good friends. That is wild. |
| 1:09.9 | The impact of having strong social relationships on our |
| 1:14.0 | health is literally bigger than obesity. It is equivalent to quitting smoking. So I was like, |
| 1:19.9 | okay, clearly friendship is important, but what is specifically happening? Like, how is it |
| 1:25.1 | having this effect? And what I realized when I dove into the research is that |
| 1:29.8 | there's a number of specific mechanisms by which friendships are having this impact on our bodies |
| 1:35.6 | and on our brains. And because of that, I came up with the five specific types of friends that are |
| 1:40.8 | going to have these impacts. So there are scrapbook friends, there are |
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