Dr. Ben Rein

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1,093 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 10 Jun

Dr. Ben Rein’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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And this drug, if you take it every day,
will reduce your likelihood of dying in the next 10 years by 50%.
It will reduce your risk of depression, anxiety, suicide, but not just that, dementia, stroke, heart disease.
It's free.
You don't have to take it every day just when you want it.
Every single person in the world would want that drug.
That drug sadly doesn't exist, but there is no drug.
It's social interaction.
Like that is the actual reality of connection, that it has all these tremendous benefits.
It is free and accessible.
And yet it maybe feels disappointing that it's not a drug, that it's not something you can just pop in and then forget about it.
It's like you have to do this active process
And I think it's a really important question of why aren't we?
Yeah, there's a bunch of these like social miscalculations that we make where we tend to basically underestimate and undervalue interaction.
And anybody who's ever tried to make the decision of Friday night, do you go hang out with your friends or do you stay home and watch TV on the couch?
knows exactly what this feels like.
It's like, I committed to these plans, but now that they're actually here, I don't really feel like doing it.
It feels like it's going to be a lot of energy.
So number one, we tend to think that interacting with people won't feel as good as it actually does.
We think we're worse at socializing than we really are.
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