Dr. Rachel Zoffness
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360 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 20 Jul
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We might have a racing heart.
Maybe our mouth will get dry.
Our palms will get sweaty.
What's crazy to me is that we don't talk about our emotional health when it comes to physical health.
Emotions profoundly and constantly change the pain experience.
And we all know that.
We've seen how our bodies feel worse during times of stress and duress.
Right.
One of the worst punishments you can give a human being is solitary confinement.
What does it say about human beings that one of the worst things you can do to us is isolate us from others?
Humans evolved to be social.
In fact...
Social behavior is so critical for our survival that our brains evolved a mechanism to reward us for engaging in it.
In the presence of other people, our brains produce feel-good brain chemicals like dopamine, which of course is motivation and reward, serotonin, which boosts our mood, and endogenous opioids.
When we are with other people, we feel better both emotionally and physically.
And when we are isolated, we feel worse physically and emotionally.
And there's one more data point I want to share with you.
There's been a lot of research conducted on the elderly.
And among those who are lonely and isolated and alone, rates of morbidity and mortality are higher rates of disease and death.
And so what that means is if you are healthy,
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