Second Thoughts
Ep. 71: Loneliness Is More Deadly Than Smoking (Touch Starvation Is Real)
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Loneliness is more deadly than smoking, and the man whose research proved it died of lung cancer. Touch starvation is not a figure of speech: oxytocin, the chemical that bonds a mother to a newborn, is released by skin on skin contact, and a society that has stopped touching each other is running short of it.
This is Part 2 of the 23 July conversation. Part 1 was about ruling out the body…