Lack of real friendships can lead to loneliness and negative health outcomes, particularly for men who lose their wives. — Whalespan
Lack of real friendships can lead to loneliness and negative health outcomes, particularly for men who lose their wives.
⚠ High risk
The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
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High-risk intervention — consult a physician before acting.Drug-drug interactions, dose-dependence, and screening contraindications apply.
“you also might at some point be left alone if you're if you're widowed and and you don't want to be alone in the world under those circumstances that's really corrosive that's one of the reasons that men do so poorly when they when they lose their wives to death because a lot of them don't have real friendships to backfill any of this need in their souls”
“that's one of the reasons that men do so poorly when they're when they lose their wives to death because a lot of them don't have real friendships to backfill any of this need in their souls”