Why Being Alone Might Be Better Than You Think

This is an iHeart Podcast. Guaranteed human. I'm neuroscientist and actress Maya Bialik. And I'm Jonathan Cohen. On our podcast, My Be Alex Breakdown, we explore the biggest questions about consciousness, quantum physics, healing, and what it means to be human. Featuring conversations with Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Mitchaku. And other leading scientists and experts, our podcast is where science and spirituality meet. Listen to new episodes of My Biolic's Breakdown every week, follow the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts. Watch full video episodes of MyBolic's Breakdown at YouTube dot com slash my and biolic.

Pushkin. If you're a fan of the Happiness Lab, you've surely heard about the powerful benefits of social connection. as well as the dangers of its opposite. Loneliness. Loneliness is strongly associated with an increased risk of heart disease.

And dementia. Depression and anxiety. This is Doctor Vek Marthy. Back in twenty twenty three when he was Surgeon General, He famously issued a landmark public advisory to sound the alarm about the negative effects of loneliness.

We already have this episode, so unlocking it is cheap and permanent: the full transcript (48 minutes, 8,760 words), segment and word-level timestamps, and .txt, .srt, .vtt and word-level JSON downloads, as many times as you like, forever.

10 free credits is 10 episodes like this one a month. Episodes nobody has transcribed yet cost their length in hours, because we have to actually transcribe them.