How Community Shapes Your Mind, Body, and Well-Being
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Coming up on this episode of The Dr. Hyman Show. It wasn't career achievement. It wasn't exercise. It wasn't a healthy diet that determined the quality and happiness of your life. It was good relationships. Good relationships keeps us healthier and happier. The holidays are supposed to be joyful, but for many of us, they're stressful. Between travel, family, busy schedules, and late nights, our bodies burn through magnesium fast. Magnesium is responsible for over 600 processes in the body, including sleep, muscle relaxation, mood, and stress response. Most of us are deficient without even knowing it. That's why I take Magnesium Breakthrough from Bioptimizers. It has all seven essential forms of magnesium in one capsule, so your body can actually absorb and use it.
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And if you prefer to listen without any breaks, don't forget you can enjoy every episode of this podcast ad-free with Hyman+. Just open Apple Podcasts and tap Try Free to start your seven-day free trial. What do the longest living and most joyous people in the world have in common? Well, they all share one common trait, a sense of belonging, of community, of connection. You know, when we have a tribe to lean on, when we are connected to others, we have a sense of belonging. when we feel there's a worth outside of ourselves, we can really tap into an incredible array of our own inner pharmacy. Not the doctor's pharmacy, but our own inner biochemistry lab in our brain that regulates so much of our health.
So what we're talking about today is how the strength of our relationships is one of the key factors, maybe the key factor in determining longevity. I'll just tell you a quick story about a community I might have mentioned before, but it's Rosetta, Pennsylvania. And it was read about this years ago in one of Deepak Chopra's books. And they found that there was this tribe of not tribe, but community of Italians that came over en masse from Italy, from this little town in Italy. And they were all different levels of society, wealth and achievement and success, at least monetarily. But they all came over. But the thing that was unique about them was that they had a deep sense of community. And no matter what station of life you were or who you were, everybody celebrated everything together.
All the holidays, all the birthdays and the weddings and the funerals and everything was in community. And then when they came to the States, they adopted the same crappy lifestyle habits as Americans, but they didn't die at the same rate because they had this sense of connection. Now we know a lot about this research because one of the biggest factors in terms of your risk for premature death is loneliness. Being lonely and socially isolated is equivalent to smoking two packs of cigarettes a day. That's really serious. So biological aging is a result of all of our stressors and our psychological stressors and relational stressors. Our lack of connection is really important. Lack of physical touch, lack of intimacy plays a huge role.
Lack of being understood and seen and witnessed has a huge role in so much of the ailments that we're suffering, not just mental illness, but also physical illness and our longevity. So this whole idea of sociogenomics, I actually came up with this term years ago when I was in Haiti, and then it became part of medical literature, not because of me, but because other people also started glomming onto it.
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Chapters
6 chapters
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–7:17
2
How do relationships impact our health and happiness?
7:17–10:26
3
What is the significance of community in longevity?
10:26–26:00
4
What did the Harvard Study of Adult Development reveal?
26:00–33:02
5
How can we improve the quality of our relationships?
33:02–36:52
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What practical steps can we take to foster community?
36:52–46:41
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