How Can My Interpersonal Relationships Help Fight Cancer?
Social bonding and interpersonal relationships can have a big impact on your cancer risk. In this video, disease prevention specialist William Li, MD, explains how healthy relationships can help protect you from a host of diseases, including cancer.
Transcript
So social bonding is one of those subjects that the medical
world has largely pooh-poohed until recently. The idea that, you know, what you do socially might make a difference to your health
is now being studied. And what we know for a fact is that the better you socialize with your community, with friends,
with family, provided they're healthy relationships-- actually, it decreases your risk of dying from all kinds of causes, including cancer.
Now there's a lot of reasons that this could actually be. For one, social behavior and social bonding increases
oxytocin in our bodies. And oxytocin is the love and trust hormone. Research in a lab is now showing that oxytocin
can fight inflammation. So just being with your friends and having good relations with your family can actually protect you
cancer prevention
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