Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel
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It's not new.
You go back.
I'm a philosopher, so I spend a lot of time reading Aristotle, but also Hippocrates.
It's not like they didn't know about these things.
They know about sociability.
They know about food.
They know about exercise.
They know about sleep.
They write about this.
It's not new.
We've known about this for 2,500 years, what they eat.
didn't recommend is doing it obsessively as if there's nothing else beyond wellness in your life.
I think you raise an incredibly big set of issues.
The first thing is social life is critically important.
Again, you know, Aristotle said man's a social animal.
And one of the reasons we have a loneliness epidemic is because we're not interacting.
COVID made it a lot worse.
Social media is not helping.
And we have a lot of forces pushing us to be more isolated.
I was noticing that on reports about schools that are no longer allowing cell phones in school from bell to bell, they report that school is noisier.