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Humans are social animals, and if I’m being pretty reductionist this paper states “being social is healthy for social animals. Being healthy means longer life s
by Insanity 1y ago
Humans are social animals, and if I’m being pretty reductionist this paper states “being social is healthy for social animals. Being healthy means longer life spans”.
So not too much of a surprise there.
Edit: still valuable to do research even to confirm whatever seems to follow logically. Not trying to discredit that!
- card_zero 1y agoI am neither social nor an animal. What exactly is the mechanism of action, what is it about going to church or whatever that decreases this nasty interleukin-6? And how can carried out most minimally, or made into pills?
- sylos 1y agoUnless you're a robot, you are a social animal
- card_zero 1y agoAnimal from the muppets is an animal. Animal from the Anti-Nowhere League is an animal. But the Elephant Man was not an animal, and neither am I. Moderation rules prohibit me from showing you how social I'm not.
- checker659 1y agoAlso, surely feeling part of a subreddit might also invoke the same processes? Edit: What about social rejection? Surely that might be a better variable than “social ties”.
- pazimzadeh 1y agoif you're not an animal then you don't have to worry about IL-6 neuroimmunology is very cool, look into it there are nerves which directly contact macrophages and other immune cells in the spleen and it's not clear why https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-66619-0 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-66619-0