Radha Agrawal
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We are literally born inside of a mother's womb.
So we are born in community, and without it, we cannot survive or thrive, right?
And it's so clear that our lack of belonging or isolation is...
the actual essential issue that ladders down to every other societal problem that we are facing today.
So gun violence.
It's every societal illness.
So obesity epidemic, our lack of...
So tell us how each one, obesity because.
So being socially isolated is as harmful to your physical health as being an alcoholic and twice as harmful as obesity because cellularly, right, we end up storing more, and again, you're the doctor here, but as there's so much sort of knowledge around and studies around when you don't belong, all of a sudden your cellular reactions become slower, you're metabolizing food less fast,
And there's actually a lot of studies that I've read around that.
Well, that too, of course, that too.
But it actually sets off a cellular chain reaction.
Our lack of belonging and isolation sets off this sort of cellular chain reaction that sort of slows down our metabolism as well.
But also, anxiety and depression, one in three college students are anxious or depressed today.
One of the reasons we launched Daybreaker on college campuses is because my fiance's little brother, three of his best friends commit suicide in college and turns out it's
What's the word?
It's contagious.
And so he... It's true.
Both positive and negative behaviors are contagious.
Absolutely.