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Increasing Our Social Fitness, with Robert Waldinger

Chasing Excellence

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How Do We Know if We Have Good Relationships?

Researchers believe that good relationships are stress regulators. They think social isolation or loneliness turn out to be chronic stressors. Our bodies don't ever return to baseline equilibrium, they stay in some kind of low level fight or flight mode. And it sits there for prolonged periods of times and that is cause of some chronic diseases.

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