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If we want to live longer, strengthen our immune system and reduce our risk of heart attack, stroke, depression and dementia, our number one health habit needs to be cultivating close, supportive [...]

If you’ve read my previous Health-e-Bytes about the healing power of relationships, you know that simply talking to someone can improve our physical and mental wellbeing and it’s never been more [...]

A study in the New England Journal of Medicine December 2019 recorded brain size, levels of BDNF* and various aspects of cognitive function in five men and four women who lived at the German [...]

A review of 148 studies involving more than 300 000 people, found that feeling socially connected reduces premature death by 50%. Conversely, chronic loneliness can damage our health to the tune [...]