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Want to Live Longer, Healthier, and Happier? Then Cultivate Your Social Connections
Chronic loneliness can increase cortisol and inflammation and weaken your immune system, says social scientist Kasley Killiam. She argues it’s time to accept that good quality social connections are a fundamental human need.
In college, for instance, she once decided to conduct a personal experiment and perform an act of kindness everyday for 108 days. Many agree with you: In 2023, the US surgeon general issued an advisory about our epidemic of loneliness and isolation, and the WHO has established a commission on social connection. I founded the nonprofit Social Health Labs in 2020 and we kicked off with a microgrant program, where every month we gave $1,000 to someone in the US who had an idea for a project to bring people together in their local community.
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