Biohacking for Longevity - The Truth They Don't Tell You

And when you say physical, you're talking beyond like, just like an intimate relationship, right? With like, you know, you'd have with a romantic partner, you're talking about just friendships in general, like the physicality of it, right?

That's right.

So it doesn't have to be a romantic partner.

It can be.

And often that's a very powerful regulating one, but it doesn't happen between strangers.

And it doesn't happen between acquaintances.

It doesn't even happen between people like in a workplace who spend a lot of time together, but don't like each other.

So these kinds of, this kind of physiologic entanglement, and it goes under a lot of different names in the scientific literature now, but this kind of physiologic entanglement only happens between people in a relationship that they spend time together and they like each other.

They're getting along.

And, you know, we have all kinds of language for what's happening as people.

you know, these underlying physiologic processes occurring.

We say they're getting along, they're on the same wavelength, that kind of thing.

But it does happen between people who are not romantic partners.

It doesn't even have to be a person.

So it happens between people and dogs, for instance, which is a fascinating thing.

And so a person can have a relationship with a dog that also regulates their well-being and their health.

And dogs have been around us for a long time as a psychiatrist.

I've been really impressed with the mental health benefits of dog ownership.

You know, dogs kind of make people happy.

It's just and one of the things is dogs just temperamentally are.

positive, they're excited to see you, you know, no matter what you're doing, or even whether you're very nice to them or not, they're still excited to see you.

So there's kind of a source of positivity.

But there also can be a source of this physiologic regulation.

And longevity.

So there is some data to indicate that dog ownership is associated with longevity.