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#182 The Secret to Happiness | With Harvard Professor Robert Waldinger, Director of 'The Happiness Study'

The Gabby Reece Show

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Are Good Relationships Good for You?

In your new book, you say that good relationships are good for you. How could they get into our bodies and like prevent us from getting type two diabetes or arthritis or heart disease? How could that possibly be? So we've been studying that. It seems to have a lot to do with stress that when you're either isolated or you're in really toxic relationships, your stress levels are high. And the body is meant to react to stress quickly, but it's meant to come back to baseline. What if you are chronically stressed by being lonely, by being in a terrible set of relationships, then your body never comes back to baseline,. But those stress hormones keep taking a toll on different

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