WorkLife: We don’t have to fight loneliness alone
TED Business
00:00
Is Loneliness a Health Threat?
When we are lonely, we are actually in a physiological stress state. And when we're lonely for a prolonged period of time, that translates to a chronic stress state. Loneliness is only one of the factors being measured, and we don't know that it's causal. But if i were to tell you that the impact of loneliness on our life span is equivalent to that of smoking 15 cigarettes a day, might surprise you.
Transcript
Play full episode
