On May 3rd, 2023, Surgeon General Vivek Murthy issued an advisory raising an alarm about what he called an “epidemic of loneliness” in the United States.
Now, I am not saying that Vivek Murthy read my book, “How Medicine Works and When It Doesn’t” - released in January and available in bookstores now - where I call attention to the problem of loneliness and its relationship to the exponential rise in deaths of despair in Chapter 11. But, you know, Vivek, if you did, let me know I could use the publicity.
No, of course the idea that loneliness is a public health issue is not new, but I’m glad to see it finally getting attention. At this point, studies have linked loneliness to heart disease, stroke, dementia, and premature death. And now, according to a new study, loneliness may be linked to Parkinson disease.
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