The Loneliness Epidemic: America's Silent Health Crisis
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🗓️ 27 October 2023
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Patrick Bet-David discusses America's silent health crisis: the loneliness epidemic. Did you know the Surgeon General warned the public that loneliness is as dangerous as smoking? Go to our sponsor https://betterhelp.com/valuetainment for 10% off your first month of therapy with BetterHelp and get matched with a therapist who will listen and help. Connect With Experts On Minnect: https://bit.ly/3M0c2an Want to get clear on your next 5 business moves? https://bit.ly/3PWkUyW Get Expert Business Advice With Bet-David Consulting: https://bit.ly/3RTBxOn Download the podcasts on all your favorite platforms https://bit.ly/3sFAW4N Visit our website: http://vt.com/ Text: PODCAST to 310.340.1132 to get the latest updates in real-time! Patrick Bet-David is the founder and CEO of Valuetainment Media. He is the author of the #1 Wall Street Journal Bestseller Your Next Five Moves
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| 0:00.0 | You know, there's one epidemic that gradually over the years has come up and creeped up on us |
| 0:04.0 | and all of a sudden, boom, during COVID, it amplified and everybody's like, wait a minute, |
| 0:07.8 | what are you talking about? To the point where the US Surgeon General declared a loneliness epidemic |
| 0:12.8 | and said, ready? That loneliness can be as damaging to a person's health as smoking |
| 0:18.7 | and they even tied a number to it. Here's a number. They said being alone, this was a study published |
| 0:24.2 | in the journal PLOS, medicine loneliness has such far-reaching consequences that the health |
| 0:29.6 | impact is comparable to smoking up to 15 cigarettes per day and by the way, according to CDC, |
| 0:36.8 | you know how many people died last year from smoking in the US? 480,000. According to World Health |
| 0:42.1 | Organization, you know how many people died last year? Worldwide? 8 million. Loneliness |
| 0:47.6 | cigarettes? 15? Boom. 480 US 8 million. Are you kidding me? And then when you see the charts, |
| 0:54.4 | some of the data that we have is that affecting men, women, generation, school and during COVID, |
| 0:59.6 | everything was social distance, kids don't go to school, stay away from people for three weeks if |
| 1:04.0 | you got COVID and work from home because that's what we got to do. Isolation, isolation, isolation, |
| 1:09.5 | loneliness, loneliness, loneliness and then they tell us this, why weren't you saying this three |
| 1:14.5 | years ago? We're going to talk about that today. All right, if you give value to this video, give |
| 1:18.6 | it a thumbs up and subscribe to the channel. Let's get right into it and let's look at a chart. |
| 1:21.7 | Take a look at this chart here. This is from US Census Bureau. Look what this means. This is a |
| 1:25.7 | number of single-person households in the US from 1960 to 2022. Now watch this. Go to 1960, you'll |
| 1:33.1 | notice that blue. That number is roughly 7 million single-person households in America. Look where |
| 1:39.4 | it's at today. Roughly today, 3738 million people. Now, you may say, well, Pat, I mean, the |
| 1:47.1 | population's gone bigger, so isn't the supposed to increase? Totally fair. We looked at the |
| 1:51.3 | population in US in 1960. You know what it was? 179 million people. You know what it is today? |
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