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Ruchika Sikri @FrederikGPferdt - The other person may be craving connection just as much

28 Jun 2026 · 1 min

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In this brief segment, Ruchika Sikri speaks about the pervasive anxiety of feeling alone, describing loneliness as a widespread yet under‑discussed epidemic. She highlights the involvement of Dr. Vivek Murthy—partner in their fund—who has conducted extensive research on loneliness, emphasizing that maintaining good social connections is as vital to health as eating nutritious food each day. Sikri also shares a few personal practices she is currently adopting to foster stronger social ties.

releases so much of this anxiety of like, I'm alone, I'm lonely, because that is a big epidemic that no one talks about. And our dear partner on our fund, Dr. Vivek Murthy, who's just joined, he has done so much research and work on loneliness. It's such an important ingredient, almost as equal as eating good food every day, to have the good social connections. So those are some of my practices that I'm trying these days.