Like you, dear Readers, I tend to be focused on the biochemistry, and have to remind myself again and again that the mind and body are intertwined. I came out last week with my core belief about biology: Mechanistic physics explains only half of what we are. Life has its own laws which we will discover only if we admit they exist.
In fact, the most powerful thing we can do to prolong life expectancy is to have robust connections to other humans. The best-documented effects are for empowering relationships with community (especially cooperative action for change) and intimate relations of
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