Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel
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And then they merged with a one that wasn't just Harvard students, but also a local kids, immigrant kids in Boston.
And so they probably them.
It's it's the longest study I know of 85 years.
And the number one issue, the number one thing for a long, both long and happy life is social relations and robust social relations.
And I think it just it just is the fact that that if you had to point to the number one thing, it's probably that.
Yeah, and of course, eating and exercise and sleep, all important.
Let me give you another piece of data on that, that I've sort of stumbled on.
And so if you look around the world, Latin American countries have are the second
broadly speaking, the second most happy countries in the world.
And they're happy beyond what their socioeconomic indicators, whether it's income per person and other variables would suggest.
And what most people who look at this think is critical is they are much more likely to eat meals together.
They have more meals with other people than any other region of the world in Latin America.
And if you look at Hispanics in the United States, as you point out,
eating the same crap we do, turns out their life expectancy is higher than whites.
Most, they have fewer problems in most categories of chronic illness than whites in the United States.
And it goes exactly to what you're saying, which is, look, sociability can compensate and overcomes lots of these other factors that might be anti-wellness.
And I think that's, again, that's something we tend to ignore, especially in the wellness community that's focused on the three physical things we can do.
At the moment, there's a place in Washington, D.C.
that makes a levna yuzu ice cream.
Oh, wow.