Together The Healing Power of Human Connection in a Sometimes Lonely World

My name is Vivek Murthy and I was trained as an internal medicine physician and recently served as Surgeon General of the United States...Murthy had recently served as Surgeon General in the Obama administration from 2014 to 2017 and now he is back in that role under President Biden. Murthy is also the author of a recent book about loneliness. It's called Together.

Loneliness places us in a threat state...Whenever you're in a state of threat you are concerned about self-preservation. Morty believes this is how chronic loneliness can lead to bad health outcomes.

Number one it turns out is that Service serving other people is a powerful backdoor if you will out of loneliness.

Murthy is the author of a forthcoming book about loneliness. It's called Together.

The book is titled, Together, the Healing Power of Human Connection in a Sometimes Lonely World.

Vivek Murthy is the Surgeon General of the United States He's the author of the book Together, the healing power of human connection in a sometimes lonely world

And I will say also that ending up in Miami, where I grew up, is what happens when two parents who grew up in the sunny part of South India spend two years in Newfoundland in the icy cold.

And I'm so glad you underscored it, because it is different from fixing.

And I worry about this because I have two small children, myself, five and six. And I'm thinking often about the world that they're growing up in.

But we all know people who have all three of those, who are wealthy, powerful and famous and profoundly unhappy, who don't feel whole.

And I worry that many of our kids are being led down a path that will not make them whole or fulfilled. I think to truly feel whole is it's not about acquiring something that we don't have. It's about remembering who we fundamentally are.

I wrote a book about it last year.

you said loneliness is an epidemic.