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Loneliness Can Kill #shorts

2 May 2023

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This is a YouTube video titled "Loneliness Can Kill #shorts" containing a monologue by Ask AI Mark recorded on May 2, 2023. The content discusses the impact of social relationships on health, emphasizing how social isolation can increase stress hormones and inflammation, contributing to various ailments beyond mental illness.

Understood and seen and witnessed. There's a huge role in so much of the ailments that we're suffering, not just mental illness, but 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 clamming onto it. And it was this idea that our social relationships and our social networks may be more important than our genetic connection or a conversation with somebody. You're going to have your stress hormones increase, you're going to have inflammation increase, you're going to increase all sorts of bad things in your body that are produced by your body that cause harm.