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How to Build a Happy Life: Know You're Lonely

How to Age Up

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Loneliness and Its Impact on Health

Loneliness is more than just a distressing feeling. It actually affects our physical health and ultimately our risk for premature mortality. We did amet analysis of all of the epidemeological evidence sof any available study world wide that measured some aspect of social relationships. What we found was that people who were more socially connected had a 50 % increase ods of survival. The point of these comparisons was really just to emphasize just how critical it is we take our relationship seriously for our health.

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