The Most Important Thing You Can Do to Live Longer
Food, We Need To Talk
Juna Gjata
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 22 January 2024
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Ever considered that the key to a longer, happier life is not what you eat, how you move, or even how much sleep, but rather... your social circle? In this episode, we speak to Dr. Robert Waldinger, a Harvard professor and director of the longest study ever conducted on human happiness. As the author of The Good Life, Dr. Waldinger revealed the profound impact of relationships on health and longevity. We discuss the surprising connection between well-being and... well... connection. How does the quality of our relationships influence not only our mental health but also our physical health? It turns out that the most important health resolution you make this year is not your new diet or workout plan, but rather that weekly phone call you promised your parents.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to our last episode in our New Year's series 2024. |
| 0:05.0 | Today we are tackling a topic that we have actually never talked about on the pod. |
| 0:10.0 | It's a topic we've definitely mentioned in passing many times, you know, but I really can't believe it four years and no episodes about this |
| 0:19.1 | So today we are talking about something that actually also something you really care about a lot |
| 0:23.3 | personally I feel like because you're always the one bringing this up. We are talking about |
| 0:27.2 | relationships and loneliness. Believe it or not you know spend more time with family and |
| 0:32.4 | friends comes up ding ding ding ding! Not Una, spend more time with family and friends. |
| 0:33.4 | Comes up, ding, ding, ding, |
| 0:35.0 | survey says, actually one of the most common resolutions. |
| 0:38.6 | And you know, over the last few decades, |
| 0:40.6 | the science is catching up. |
| 0:42.1 | We're really starting to understand that the |
| 0:44.5 | relationships we have with each other are really crucial to our physical and |
| 0:48.6 | also to our mental health. I remember hearing that the Surgeon General |
| 0:51.7 | Vivek Murthy had declared |
| 0:53.2 | loneliness like the fastest growing epidemic in the US or something and I remember being |
| 0:57.4 | like what on earth is this man talking about like isn't an epidemic a disease |
| 1:02.0 | you know as well here in this episode the shocking thing is that |
| 1:05.7 | loneliness can actually be sometimes even more detrimental for our health than actual |
| 1:11.1 | diseases today we're talking about something that I think we all need health than actual diseases. |
| 1:12.5 | Today we're talking about something that I think we all need to spend a little bit more time |
| 1:16.6 | on the other people in our lives. |
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