Dr. Ben Rein

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The Liz Moody Podcast · Stanford Neuroscientist: THIS Is The Secret To Living Longer (It's Not Diet Or Exercise) · 10 Jun 2026 podcast

But it's you know, you could also just stay at home.

But I think we should treat it the same way we treat something like sleep or exercise, where, you know, if you get a bad night of sleep or two bad nights, it's like I got to make sure I go to bed early tonight, you know, to catch up.

Or if you're you know, if you're a person that trains a lot and you miss a couple of days, it's like got to get back in.

But socializing, we just don't think that way.

And there's just so much at stake that I don't know if we can afford to neglect it.

Yeah, exactly.

I mean, it's such an exercise for the brain, taking in all this information and trying to figure out what it all means.

And I think that's one of the reasons why, by the way, it's good to be socializing as we age, because you're putting it to use.

There's this phrase in neuroscience, use it or lose it.

Your brain will naturally kind of shrink certain areas, especially as you age, if you're not using them.

But if you're engaging these areas all the time, challenge is good.

It's uncomfortable, but it's really, really good for you.

The neuroscience of love is so interesting, and it all really kind of loops back to oxytocin.

This is why I think of oxytocin as social glue, because there's evidence that when couples are falling in love, if you measure their blood oxytocin levels at the beginning of the relationship,

you can predict which couples are still going to be together six months later just by looking at their oxytocin.

Pretty wild.

And it suggests that, again, oxytocin is social glue.

When there's more glue, the pieces are going to stay together.

And also another thing that's important there is

is that oxytocin is a reflection of how much you enjoy a person.

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