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It was stunning to me that a 2009 UC Berkeley study, you know, found that good relationships can add a decade to your lifespan potentially a decade.

It was crazy and then there was a matter of view where they look at all the studies about

relationships and what they found is that good relationships are second only to genetics in

terms of predicting both health and longevity in humans.

It's so crazy we forget that those little stressors that build up and we don't have a release

valve when we can't talk about things and we can't share things when we can't hear that it's normal, it's okay,

this is really hard stuff. The stress hormones that happen that basically because of

loneliness is the equivalent of a physical attack.

Loneliness is like getting beat up.

Loneliness before the 19th century basically didn't exist.

We were so enmeshed in societies.

Tribes, tribes, tribes, nations, we always felt a part of something.

Even if we weren't close to people and we usually were,

we felt we were a part of something.

You basically, before the 19th century, you can't hear it mentioned, because we were always embedded in a group.

When you hear the word lonely, it meant something by itself.

It didn't have the negative stigma.

It wasn't until literally Frankenstein that you heard lonely in the 19th century start to be used as a negative thing because we had an explosion of individualism

Which unlocked a lot of power a lot of great things in the world, but we felt separate. And people who are

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