Stan, Clarence, and Barry chat with Dr. Julianne Holt-Lunstad about loneliness.Dr. Holt-Lunstad is a professor of psychology and neuroscience and director of the Social Connection & Health Lab at Brigham Young University. She is also the founding scientific chair and board member for the U.S. Foundation for Social Connection and the Global Initiative on Loneliness and Connection. Her research focuses on the individual and population health effects, biological mechanisms, and effective strategies to mitigate risk and promote protection associated with social connection.Listen along as Dr. Holt-Lunstad shares their expertise on the effects of loneliness.Join the conversation at healthchatterpodcast.comBrought to you in support of Hue-MAN, who is Creating Healthy Communities through Innovative Partnerships.More about their work can be found at http://huemanpartnership.org/
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Hello, everybody. Welcome to Health Chatter. Today's show is on loneliness and we'll be addressing isolation as well. We have a really superb guest with us. Stay tuned for that in just a second. Our crew is second to none, really is second to none. They They do our background research. They do our production with us. They do our marketing, the whole nine yards. And they're really, really good.
So first of all, we have Maddie Levine-Wolf, who's helping with our recording today and does research for us. Aaron Collins, Deandra Howard, Matthew Campbell. And Sharon and Nygaard all do our great work for us, including our production and marketing. So thank you to everybody. Human Partnership is our community organization that really does some great community work, health-oriented work.
for us, especially in the Twin City metropolitan area. So thank you to them. Along with us today is Dr. Barry Baines, our medical advisor. And then of course, there's Clarence Jones, who is my co-host and partner in this initiative. So thank you to all of you. So today, loneliness and isolation, we have a great guest. Her name is Julianne Holt-Lunstad.
Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience and Director of Social Connection and Health Lab at Brigham Young University. We really appreciate her being with us because we're recording this show in the morning and it's earlier for her because she's in mountain time. So again, thank you, Julianne, for that. She is also the founding scientific chair and board member for the U.S.
Foundation for Social Connection and Global Initiative on Loneliness and Connection. You know, when you really get down to the idea of loneliness, there really is no doubt in my mind after hearing from her and reading her background that she is really the consummate expert on this subject. So welcome. Welcome to our show today. It's really nice having you.
Thank you. It's a pleasure to be here.
All right. So let's get this thing going here. There's a lot of information around loneliness all of a sudden. And my question is, is this something new? It's like all of a sudden, we're talking about loneliness. What the heck? What's going on here?
Yeah, no, I mean, it's not new, but certainly we are hearing a lot more about it in public discourse for sure. So I've been doing research on this for a little over two decades, and certainly I'm not the first to do research on this. And so the scientific evidence around this has been building for decades.
But I think one thing that, well, I should say there were growing concerns in the public even before the pandemic. So we saw the UK appoint a minister for loneliness back in, I think it was 2017 or 2018. And we started hearing things like concerns of, quote unquote, loneliness epidemic.
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