An invisible pandemic of people feeling invisible.
Loneliness is much more than just a sad feeling: it’s a powerful physiologic stressor and one of the *leading predictors* of early mortality. (1/8)
@ivo_cerda8@mollymaloofmd
https://t.co/DN4bZFR1Zw
🎓 “Peace be upon you. From the students of Harvard, to the youth of Dahieh, to the sons of Nabatieh, and the people of Tyre.”
Harvard Medical School graduate Leen Ezzeddine, from the southern Lebanese town of Arabsalim, used her graduation speech to remind her peers of the students in Gaza and southern Lebanon who do not benefit from the same “arbitrary luck and circumstance” that she and her classmates have enjoyed.
Ezzeddine said her presence at that podium was “evidence of what survives the border, the bomb, and the exile,” and of “what becomes possible when people the world has tried to erase are allowed to live.”
Congratulations to my “ultra-precocious” scientist @MarkCzeisler whose work landed him among the top-cited researchers in <5 years since his first publication 🧪
cc @Nature
In August, I'll participate in my first @PanMass Challenge, biking ~190 miles in 2 days to support @DanaFarber cancer research & treatment
I hope you'll consider supporting my ride and contributing towards a cancer-free future.
See Why I Ride: https://t.co/KcrpkJSpQ0
An invisible pandemic of people feeling invisible.
Loneliness is much more than just a sad feeling: it’s a powerful physiologic stressor and one of the *leading predictors* of early mortality. (1/8)
@ivo_cerda8@mollymaloofmd
https://t.co/DN4bZFR1Zw
New Research: Breaking the vicious cycle: The interplay between loneliness, metabolic illness, and mental health: Loneliness, or perceived social isolation, is a leading predictor of all-cause mortality and is increasingly considered a public… https://t.co/O3shv6WuXA #Psychiatry