Can Loneliness Kill You?

We all feel lonely sometimes, but are the effects serious? DRAG TRANSFORMATION: https://youtu.be/ytVoblN6qhg Download our podcast on iTunes: https://apple.co/2y5xqI0 Created by: Mitchell Moffit and Gregory Brown Written by: Rachel Salt, Gregory Brown, and Mitch Moffit Illustrated by: Max Simmons Edited by: Sel Ghebrehiwot FOLLOW US! Instagram and Twitter: @whalewatchmeplz and @mitchellmoffit Clickable: http://bit.ly/16F1jeC and http://bit.ly/15J7ube AsapINSTAGRAM: https://instagram.com/asapscience/ Facebook: http://facebook.com/AsapSCIENCE Twitter: http://twitter.com/AsapSCIENCE Tumblr: http://asapscience.tumblr.com SNAPCHAT US whalewatchmeplz and pixelmitch Created by Mitchell Moffit (twitter @mitchellmoffit) and Gregory Brown (twitter @whalewatchmeplz). Send us stuff! ASAPSCIENCE INC. P.O. Box 93, Toronto P Toronto, ON, M5S2S6 References/Further Reading: https://research.vu.nl/ws/portalfiles/portal/2080758 Genetic and Environmental Contributions to Loneliness in Adults: The Netherlands Twin Register Study https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277953612000275 Loneliness, health, and mortality in old age: A national longitudinal study http://heart.bmj.com/content/102/13/1009 Loneliness and social isolation as risk factors for coronary heart disease and stroke: systematic review and meta-analysis of longitudinal observational studies http://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1000316 Social Relationships and Mortality Risk: A Meta-analytic Review https://www.psychologicalscience.org/news/releases/being-ignored-hurts-even-by-a-stranger.html Being Ignored Hurts, Even by a Stranger https://keelyamuscatell.files.wordpress.com/2015/10/inagaki_muscatell_in-press.pdf Yearning for connection? Loneliness is associated with increased ventral striatum activity to close others https://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/gb-2007-8-9-r189 Social regulation of gene expression in human leukocytes https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health-and-fitness/health/why-is-loneliness-so-toxic/article37734381/ Why is loneliness so toxic? Scientists are exploring what it does to the human body http://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/hea-hea0000467.pdf Loneliness Predicts Self-Reported Cold Symptoms After a Viral Challenge https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/04/120402162546.htm How stress influences disease: Study reveals inflammation as the culprit https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2841363/ Loneliness and Cortisol: Momentary, Day-to-day, and Trait Associations https://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/publications/the-lonely-society The Lonely Society https://guilfordjournals.com/doi/abs/10.1521/suli.31.1.32.21312 Loneliness in Relation to Suicide Ideation and Parasuicide: A Population-Wide Study https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/suicide-crime-loneliness Suicide, a Crime of Loneliness https://assets.aarp.org/rgcenter/general/loneliness_2010.pdf Lonliness among Older Adults http://jnnp.bmj.com/content/early/2012/11/06/jnnp-2012-302755 Feelings of loneliness, but not social isolation, predict dementia onset: results from the Amsterdam Study of the Elderly (AMSTEL) https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/apr/24/loneliness-linked-to-major-life-setbacks-for-millennials-study-says Loneliness linked to major life setbacks for millennials, study say