Social connection is a key mechanism for mitigating long-term stress.

“the best tools the best mechanisms that we know to modulate long-term stress might surprise you a little bit first of all there are going to be the things that don't surprise you which is everyone knows getting regular exercise getting good sleep um using realtime tools to try and Tamp down the stress response Etc that's all going to be really useful the data really point to the fact that social connection and certain types of social Connection in particular are what are going to mitigate or reduce long-term stress”