The Ultimate Biohack: Friendship
00:00:00.000 | First of all, we're social animals, so we all need them.
00:00:02.360 | You're not going to get through this thing called life without them,
00:00:04.640 | at least not successfully.
00:00:05.880 | And if you look at the world we live in right now,
00:00:08.240 | rising rates of depression and anxiety, inability to cope with stress,
00:00:12.080 | in the worst case scenario, suicide,
00:00:13.920 | what you find is that friendship fixes all those things.
00:00:16.560 | It's the ultimate biohack.
00:00:17.880 | Even the obsession with longevity.
00:00:19.320 | You know, you've got everybody talking about diets and exercises and supplements,
00:00:23.680 | and yet nobody's talking about friends.
00:00:25.320 | And if you look at all the blue zones and all of those things,
00:00:27.440 | yes, they're eating these vegetarian diets, yes, they walk a lot,
00:00:30.000 | but they also commune, they also eat with friends, they also walk with friends.
00:00:33.600 | And I've met so many people who've lived to old age,
00:00:36.440 | who didn't do any of the things that the biohackers in Hollywood do,
00:00:39.120 | and they're in their 90s, and they're happy, and they're healthy,
00:00:41.040 | and they're walking around, and you hear them laugh and talk about their friends.
00:00:44.680 | And so I think that we forget about friendship,
00:00:47.640 | because it's a little more amorphous, can't measure it as easily.
00:00:51.000 | You know, we live in a metrics-obsessed world.
00:00:53.240 | We're so metrics-obsessed, we forget that some of the harder-to-measure,
00:00:56.320 | more qualitative, beautiful things in life actually contribute to our health.