The Jack Eason Podcast - Episode 022 - Julianne Holt-Lunstad

In this episode, Jack has a conversation with Dr. Julianne Holt-Lunstad who was a trailblazer in American research related to loneliness and how it relates to morbidity. Loneliness has a real a physical impact on the lives of those we know and love.

Dr. Julianne Holt-Lunstad is a professor of psychology and neuroscience at Brigham Young University. She is a loneliness and social isolation expert whose research focuses on the long term health effects of social connections.

Julianne has made the remarkable finding that being socially isolated carries the same health risk as smoking 15 cigarettes a day! And it's more predictive of early death than the effects of air pollution or physical inactivity.

We recognize today that the U.S. and a number of other developed nations are facing a loneliness epidemic. And Dr. Holt-Lunstad's years of research on this issue are ahead of its time.

Read more of her articles and studies online at https://julianneholtlunstad.byu.edu